Description
The San Francisco Review, launched in the late 1950s, was one of many vital small press publications born of the post-war literary boom, and like its counterparts (Evergreen Review, Yugen, The Outsider), it became a crucible for the avant-garde. The design alone—clean, modernist, and collage-influenced—spoke to an editorial aesthetic that looked both forward and inward. Though it only ran for a handful of issues, the magazine featured some of the earliest work by writers who would soon define the 1960s counterculture in print.
And then there’s Bukowski. Between 1958 and 1961, Charles Bukowski was clawing his way out of obscurity, appearing in little magazines at a growing pace. These early appearances in The San Francisco Review mark his transition from literary loner to cult voice. The early work he published here predates the Black Sparrow years and captures the tension and grit of a writer still working hard at building his audience.
Two slim volumes, one lot—early Bukowski with some other big lit names to boot.
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