Wormwood Review 81 & 82 #566/700 – Good-By To Hollywood Special Charles Bukowski Section with Four Drawings, One Uncollected Short Story, Three Uncollected Poems and13 Poems Total (1981)

If you’re a Bukowski collector and you have not purchased the Wormwood Review special issues, time is not on your side. These get harder to find and more expensive all the time.

Charles Bukowski always felt Wormwood Review was the best small magazine out there and was grateful that they were one of the first to recognize his work. In return, Bukowski continued to contribute to the magazine right up until his death in 1994.

Published in 1981, Wormwood 81& 82 was a double issue featuring a 20-page center section featuring 12 poems, four drawings and one short story by Charles Bukowski.

There were 700 copies printed, this copy being hand-numbered #566.

A Friend is a short story that has yet to be published again.

The poems include:

Scarlet, Have A Nice Day, and A Bad Night For My Buddy have yet to be published again.

All Together Now and The German Hotel appeared in Shakespeare Never Did This.

Hollywood Ranch Market and Action Down On The Corner later appeared in What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire (1999).

Chill, Edith Sent Us, and The Old Pinch Hitter later appeared in Open All Night (2000).

Night School appeared in Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981) and On Drinking (2019).

The Trashing Of The Dildo later appeared in On Love (2016).

This copy is in Near Fine condition with small bumps to the corners and the slightest of wear.

Wormwood Review was published by the legendary Marvin Malone (1930-1996). Malone was a pharmacologist, scientific researcher, educator, artist, poetry collector, and editor. Upon arrival to Storrs, Connecticut in 1960, Malone discovered the second issue of Wormwood Review and soon took over the publication as the sole editor, publisher, and designer (alias A. Sypher), producing quarterly issues until his death in 1996.

Wormwood Review ran for 144 issues (1959-1997). Christa Malone, Marvin's daughter, co-edited issue 144 after Marvin's death, and released issue 145/146 as a special tribute issue to Marvin in 1999.

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