Wormwood Review 16 #473/600 -- Grip The Walls Special Charles Bukowski Section (1964)

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.

Wormwood 16 featured the special Charles Bukowski section “Grip The Walls.”

Only 600 copies were printed, this one being #473.

This copy is in Near Fine + condition.

Poems include:

• The Dogs - pg. 15
• Poetess - For S.S.V. - pg. 16
• The Literary Life - pg. 17
• When You Wait For The Dawn To Crawl Through The Screen Like A Burglar To Take Your Life Away - pg. 19
• Sleeping Woman - pg. 20
• The New Place - pg. 21

The Dogs, The Literary Life and The New Place would later appear in The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988).

Poetess - For S.S.V. would later appear in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills (1969).

When You Wait For The Dawn To Crawl Through The Screen Like A Burglar To Take Your Life Away would later appear in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills (1969) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

Sleeping Woman would later appear in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills (1969) and On Love (2016).

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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