Intrepid # 9

Buffalo, NY: allen de loach, Intrepid Press, 1967.

Includes three poems by Bukowski, "Poem for the death of an American serviceman in Vietnam", "A bad night - blame the Bourbon", "from the Dept. of English"; also contributions from LeRoi Jones ("Lady Bug"), John Voight ("Race relations"), Ted Enslin, Frederick Ploitkin, Joel Oppenheimer. Original printed red card covers, stapled spine, cover calligraphy by Brion Gysin. Extremely bright and clean copy, almost as new. A fine copy. Bukowski contributed to seven issues of Intrepid between 1966 and 1972. Edited by Allen De Loach in New York (issues 1-5) and then Buffalo (issues 6-41), Intrepid (1964-1980) published a large number of poets directly and indirectly associated with the New American Poetry, and especially Beat writers and influential figures like Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Philip Whalen, William Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Charles Bukowski, Ted Berrigan, Gary Snyder, Ted Enslin, and Charles Olson.