Wormwood Review 144 – Marvin Malone’s Final Issue

Published in 1997 Wormwood Review 144 was Marvin Malone’s final issue before his death.

This copy is not numbered and includes three Charles Bukowski poems:

• Living In A Great Big Way - pg. 189 - circa 1991
• The Interlude - pg. 190
• Breakfast - pg. 191 - 1990

The Interlude has yet to be published again.

Living In A Great Big Way appeared in Slouching Toward Nirvana.

Breakfast appeared in The People Look Like Flowers At Last.

Breakfast is the final poem in the issue and ends with the line:
“You have to die a few times before you live”

The covers have a few small white spots that look like white out but is in otherwise Fine condition.

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.

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.

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