Various (Malone, Marvin (Editor); Bukowski, Charles et al.)

Wormwood Review Vol. 33, No. 4 (No. 132, 1993)

Stockton, CA, USA: Wormwood Books and Magazines, 1993. Limited First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Debritto B1-682., p. 394). “the long days at the track have indented themselves into me: / I am the horses, the jocks, I am six furlongs, seven furlongs, I am a mile and one sixteenth, / … / I am the racetrack, my ribs are the wooden rails / … / my eyes are the flashes of the toteboard, my feet are hooves and there is something riding on my back, I am the last curve, I am the home stretch, I am the longshot and the favorite, I am humanely destroyed, I am the horseplayer who / became the / racetrack” (“The Condition Book,” Charles Bukowski, p. 213). This later number of the legendary literary journal edited by the late Marvin Malone (1930-1996) features three poems by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the great American cult favorite poet-denizen of the dive bar & racetrack: “Upon Splitting with the Last Woman…”; “Voice Out of the Void”; & “The Condition Book,” from which Your Devoted VP-of-Operations here at TMB quoted an excerpt, above. For a full list of contributors, see back cover photo attached to this listing. Small-format literary journal in stapled wrappers: the First (& only) Printing of this issue of the Wormwood Review, No. 648/700. In very fine condition with only minute shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; microscopic exhibits of light bumping at select locales, otherwise clean. Very Fine. [Item #7142]

Price: $40.00