Wormwood Review 16 -- Signed by Charles Bukowski (1964)

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

This copy is signed by Charles Bukowski on the cover. There was no signed edition for this special Bukowski issue. Please note it is a later signature.

Only 600 copies were printed, this one being #466.

This copy is in Near Fine condition with a little toning on the cover near the spine The front cover has a bump to the oversized cover on top of the spine, and small bumps on the other three. The rear cover has a crease on the upper edge and small bumps to all four corners. The interior pages are clean and bright and the spine is solid.

Poems include:

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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