Various (Friedland, Helen (Editor); Bukowski, Charles; Locklin, Gerald; Peters, Robert et al.)

Poetry/LA No. 6 (Spring/Summer 1983)

Los Angeles, CA: Peggor Press, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. "I don't want anybody | saying about | me: | "he was really a | good guy, after | all..." | some | jackass | making some | decision upon my | mortality. | rather than the jackass... " (excerpt from Bukowski poem "No Eulogy" pg. 8) Started in 1980 by New Yorker and co-author of millenial favorite children's book "See You Later Alligator" Helen Friedland (1916-2012), this timeless number of the legendary poetry journal chiefly edited by Friedland features the first publication of poems "The Girls From Nowhere", "I Enter the City of San Pedro", "No Eulogy" and "A Statement Upon the Journey" (pgs. 1-9), by Beat-&-Beyond cult favorite Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). Debritto B1195, pg. 316. This issue also has the stand-out poems "The Disappearance of the Greenwood", "The Vandals", "The Orphan", " A Tyrant of Our Times", and "Mussing the Matriarchy" (pgs. 74-76) by American poet and Bukowski mentee Gerald Locklin (1941-2021), "Eileen" and "The Prom" (pgs. 10-12) by prolific American essayist, poet, and Bukowski admirer Robert Peters (1924-2014), & Spanish and English versions of "Intellijencia, Dame" (pg. 36) by Spanish poet and translator Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958). Friedland discusses the rise of the popularity of Poetry L.A. in her introduction "Random Walk" & much more. With acknowledgments, contemporary ads, and writer descriptions. A very significant issue in this always most collectible series, of particular interest to the Bukowski devotee/completist. Trade-Format Softcover Journal; first edition, first printing though not explicated as such at copyright page. Journal in relatively fine-to-very-fine condition with minor rubbing and age-toning to front, back covers & spine; mild wear & some tiny bumps at edges & corners of same; minor age-toning to edges of text block. Interior fine-to-very-fine with light age-toning mostly to blank margins of page leaves. Fine-Very Fine. [Item #7699]

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