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.
In 1966, Wormwood Review published a great issue that featured eight drawings and six poems by Charles Bukowski.
There were only 600 copies published, this one being #469.
A Bukowski drawing is featured on the cover and the center section features seven additional drawings and 6 poems.
This issue also featured a "A Beginner's Bibliography" for Bukowski, listing all his books to date.
This copy is in Near Fine condition.
The poems include:
Buffalo Bill - pg. 15
A Little Atomic Bomb - pg. 17
Somebody Always Breaking My Dainty Solitude - pg. 19
The Colored Birds - pg. 19
Fag, Fag, Fag - pg. 21
The Screw-Game - pg. 22
Buffalo Bill would later appear in The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988) and On Drinking (2019).
A Little Atomic Bomb would later appear in 2 by Bukowski (1967), Fire Station (1970), and Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979).
Somebody Always Breaking My Dainty Solitude would later appear in The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988).
The Colored Birds would later appear in Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).
Fag, Fag, Fag would later appear in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills (1969).
The Screw-Game would later appear in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills (1969) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).
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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