Various (Friedland, Helen (Editor); Bukowski, Charles; Eckersley, Darrell; Fried, Elliot; Locklin, Gerald et al.)

Poetry/LA No. 4 (Spring/Summer 1982)

Los Angeles, CA: Peggor Press, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. " I sit here | drunk now | listening to | same symphonies | that gave me | the luck to go on | when I was 22 | 40 years later | they and I are not as | magic..." (excerpt from Bukowski poem "Grip the Light" pg. 53) 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 "Carson McCullers", "Grip the Light" (quoted above), and "Gnawed by Dull Crisis" (pgs. 52-56), by Beat-&-Beyond cult favorite Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). Debritto B1166, pg. 311. This issue also has the stand-out poems "Isn't the Worst Ever Behind You?" (pg. 96), "I Wish I'd Said That, and Someday I Probably Will" (pg. 96), & "You, Gail Sheehy" (pg. 97) by renowned American poet and Bukowski mentee Gerald Locklin (1941-2021), "To Condo (The All-American Verb)" (pg. 78) by St. Louis poet Elliot Fried (b. 1944), & "The Picasso Destruction" (pg. 67) by American English educator Darrell Eckersley (b. 1939). Friedland discusses her decision to allow non-L.A. poets into the journal in her introduction "Random Walk" & much more. With acknowledgments, contemporary ads, and short writer biographies. 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. 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 #7701]

Price: $25.00