Wormwood Review 43 Exchange Copy – Three Uncollected (Four Total) Charles Bukowski poems (1971)

Published in 1971, Wormwood Review 43 contains four Bukowski poems, three of which were ever published again:

• Fleas In My Brain
• The 1930s
• The Light Of Jesus
• A Northern Acquaintance

Fleas in My Brain has yet to be published again.

The Light Of Jesus and A Northern Acquaintance were never printed again, but were included in the recordings Cassette Gazette Cassette and King of Poets.

The 1930s would later appear in The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

This is an Exchange Copy that editor Marvin Malone would send to other poetry journals in exchange for a copy of theirs.

This copy is in Near Fine-minus condition with some edgewear.

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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