Wormwood Review appearances
A red dot indicates that the poem does not appear in any of the Black Sparrow/ECCO collections.
No. 7 - 1962 - Thank God For Alleys
No. 8 - 1962 - For Jane
No. 8 - 1962 - The Sharks
No. 11 - 1963 - Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer
No. 11 - 1963 - Rhyming Poem
No. 12 - 1963 - Poem For My 43rd Birthday
No. 12 - 1963 - It's Not Who Lived Here
No. 12 - 1963 - The End
No. 12 - 1963 - The Vulgar Sounds Rise My Misery
No. 13 - 1964 - The Hours
No. 14 - 1964 - Beerbottle
No. 14 - 1964 - What To Do With Contributor's Copies?
No. 15 - 1964 - Practice
No. 16 - 1964 - The Dogs
No. 16 - 1964 - Poetess - For S.S.V.
No. 16 - 1964 - The Literary Life
No. 16 - 1964 - When You Wait For The Dawn To Crawl Through The Screen Like A Burglar To Take Your Life Away
No. 16 - 1964 - Sleeping Woman
No. 16 - 1964 - The New Place
No. 18 - 1965 - American Express, Athens, Greece
No. 19 - 1965 - Birth
No. 19 - 1965 - About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
No. 20 - 1965 - Finish
No. 20 - 1965 - Female And Breakdown And Peace
No. 20 - 1965 - 6:21 P.M.
No. 21 - 1966 - Dear Friend
No. 21 - 1966 - One Hundred And Ninety-Nine Pounds Of Clay Leaning Forward
No. 21 - 1966 - A World, Really
No. 22 - 1966 - Notes On A Bluebird Flying Past My Window
No. 22 - 1966 - In This Place We Eat Apples And Cut Our Fingers On Beercans
No. 24 - 1966 - Buffalo Bill
No. 24 - 1966 - A Little Atomic Bomb
No. 24 - 1966 - The Colored Birds
No. 24 - 1966 - Somebody Always Breaking My Dainty Solitude
No. 24 - 1966 - Fag, Fag, Fag
No. 24 - 1966 - The Screw-Game
No. 29 - 1968 - One For Ging, With Klux Top
No. 29 - 1968 - Footnote Upon The Construction Of The Masses
No. 30 - 1968 - No Hole In The Sky
No. 31 - 1968 - The Underground
No. 33 - 1969 - The Ladies Still Don't Care
No. 37 - 1970 - One More Good One. Why Not?
No. 37 - 1970 - Moonlight Ride
No. 38 - 1970 - Down Like Stairways, Up Like Smoke
No. 38 - 1970 - Another Academy
No. 39 - 1970 - A Correction To A Lady Of Poetry
No. 39 - 1970 - A Warm Afternoon Just Off Sunset Boulevard
No. 39 - 1970 - Yes
No. 39 - 1970 - Boil Near Left Elbow
No. 40 - 1970 - 16 Jap Machine Gun Bullets
No. 40 - 1970 - When All The Animals Lie Down
No. 41 - 1971 - Looking For Jack Micheline
No. 42 - 1971 - The Bombing Of Berlin
No. 42 - 1971 - The Great Writer
No. 42 - 1971 - Ice
No. 43 - 1971 - The Light Of Jesus
No. 43 - 1971 - Fleas In My Brain
No. 43 - 1971 - The 1930s
No. 43 - 1971 - A Northern Acquaintance
No. 44 - 1971 - Something On Berlioz
No. 44 - 1971 - The Butcher
No. 44 - 1971 - My Landlady
No. 45 - 1972 - The Outsider
No. 46 - 1972 - The Smoking Car
No. 46 - 1972 - Poetry, You Whore
No. 47 - 1972 - I Met This Woman
No. 47 - 1972 - The Painter
No. 48 - 1972 - The Last Poetry Reading
No. 49 - 1973 - Daylight Saving
No. 49 - 1973 - Born To Lose
No. 50 - 1973 - The Angels Say Keep Going
No. 50 - 1973 - Vacancy
No. 51 - 1973 - Our Song
No. 51 - 1973 - My Afternoons Into Night
No. 51 - 1973 - Bukowski
No. 53 - 1974 - 200 Years
No. 53 - 1974 - Finish
No. 53 - 1974 - 55 Beds In The Same Direction
No. 53 - 1974 - Well, Now That Ezra Has Died
No. 53 - 1974 - Tarot
No. 53 - 1974 - Eleven
No. 53 - 1974 - No Bra, No Panties
No. 53 - 1974 - A Bit Of Light For The Toad
No. 53 - 1974 - Demise
No. 55 - 1974 - Girls Coming Home In Their Cars
No. 55 - 1974 - 75 Million Dollars
No. 55 - 1974 - Some Picnic
No. 57 - 1974 - Poor Trochi
No. 57 - 1974 - Fair Stand The Fields Of France And Negation
No. 57 - 1974 - Round Trip - For T.H.
No. 57 - 1974 - There's People In Places Where Snow Lives
No. 60 - 1975 - Look At That Guy
No. 60 - 1975 - An Old Fan
No. 60 - 1975 - Shoot Me In The Leg, Shouts The Sky; Some Good Soul Does As The Sawdust Falls Through
No. 60 - 1975 - Kiss Me
No. 61 - 1976 - The New Place
No. 62 - 1976 - Cloud 9
No. 62 - 1976 - I Like To Look Up At The Ceiling For Designs In The Cracks
No. 62 - 1976 - I Live In A Neighborhood Of Murder
No. 62 - 1976 - Susan's Sunset And Western
No. 64 - 1976 - Free
No. 64 - 1976 - Utah
No. 64 - 1976 - Let's Be Original
No. 65 - 1977 - Blinks A Little Spot Of Senseless Yellow In The Middle Of It All
No. 68 - 1977 - The Veryest
No. 68 - 1977 - It's Strange
No. 71 - 1978 - Inflation And All
No. 71 - 1978 - They Arrived
No. 71 - 1978 - An Old Jockey
No. 71 - 1978 - A Little Sun
No. 71 - 1978 - The Dandy
No. 71 - 1978 - Silk Pink Gown, Silk Blue Gown, Silk Purple Gown
No. 71 - 1978 - Black
No. 71 - 1978 - The Machine
No. 71 - 1978 - Where's It At?
No. 71 - 1978 - My God
No. 71 - 1978 - The Beautiful Young Girl Walking Past The Graveyard
No. 71 - 1978 - Beers
No. 71 - 1978 - A Good Show
No. 71 - 1978 - Panasonic
No. 71 - 1978 - Men In Urinals
No. 71 - 1978 - Job #36
No. 71 - 1978 - My Kind Of Place
No. 71 - 1978 - The Image
No. 71 - 1978 - And My Mother Had A Nice Umbrella And Looked Beautiful In The Rain
No. 71 - 1978 - Smashed
No. 71 - 1978 - A Love Poem For All The Women I Have Known
No. 71 - 1978 - Exegesis
No. 71 - 1978 - Sad Letters From Up North
No. 71 - 1978 - The Finish Of Moby Dick
No. 71 - 1978 - With A Class Lady In A Big Flower Hat
No. 71 - 1978 - I Liked Him
No. 71 - 1978 - The Yards
No. 71 - 1978 - Water Bugs
No. 71 - 1978 - 2 Buddies
No. 71 - 1978 - Lost Dog
No. 71 - 1978 - The Beast
No. 71 - 1978 - He Uses Unwaxed Dental Floss
No. 71 - 1978 - Ow
No. 71 - 1978 - Train Station
No. 71 - 1978 - Last Try
No. 71 - 1978 - The Big Weight-Lifting Feat
No. 71 - 1978 - Legs, Hips And Behind
No. 71 - 1978 - Chilled
No. 71 - 1978 - The Interview
No. 71 - 1978 - Rise, Old Purple Snake!
No. 71 - 1978 - Firing Squad
No. 72 - 1978 - The Deathly Bravo
No. 72 - 1978 - A 56 Year Old Poem
No. 73 - 1979 - The Lady With The Dog
No. 73 - 1979 - Nana
No. 74 - 1979 - Interview
No. 74 - 1979 - Social
No. 74 - 1979 - Within My Own Madness
No. 74 - 1979 - Rock
No. 74 - 1979 - Tongue-Cut
No. 76 - 1979 - The Immortals
No. 76 - 1979 - Sibelius And Etc.
No. 76 - 1979 - Silk
No. 76 - 1979 - 2nd. Street, Near Hollister, In Santa Monica
No. 76 - 1979 - An Observer
No. 77 - 1980 - Dead Again
No. 77 - 1980 - 1984
No. 77 - 1980 - A Note Upon Waste
No. 77 - 1980 - A Fact
No. 77 - 1980 - Overt Population
No. 77 - 1980 - The Beach Boys
No. 78 - 1980 - Hotel Felix
No. 78 - 1980 - Yes
No. 80 - 1980 - Shopping List
No. 80 - 1980 - Love
No. 80 - 1980 - We're All So Wanted
No. 80 - 1980 - Time Is Made To Be Wasted
No. 80 - 1980 - And Titles Too
No. 80 - 1980 - A Note Upon Starvation
No. 81 - 1981 - All Together Now
No. 81 - 1981 - Hollywood Ranch Market
No. 81 - 1981 - Edith Sent Us
No. 81 - 1981 - Night School
No. 81 - 1981 - The Old Pinch Hitter
No. 81 - 1981 - Scarlet
No. 81 - 1981 - A Friend
No. 81 - 1981 - Have A Nice Day
No. 81 - 1981 - Chill
No. 81 - 1981 - The Trashing Of The Dildo
No. 81 - 1981 - A Bad Night For My Buddy
No. 81 - 1981 - Action Down On The Corner
No. 81 - 1981 - The German Hotel
No. 84 - 1981 - Be Angry At San Pedro
No. 84 - 1981 - A Loser
No. 85 - 1982 - Louis-Ferdinand Destouches
No. 85 - 1982 - Trouble
No. 85 - 1982 - Getting My Money's Worth
No. 85 - 1982 - Slaughter
No. 85 - 1982 - Those
No. 87 - 1982 - Parked
No. 87 - 1982 - Parts Dept.
No. 87 - 1982 - The Drunk With The Little Legs
No. 87 - 1982 - No Chance In Pomona
No. 88 - 1982 - Pretty Boy
No. 88 - 1982 - I Can't Stop
No. 89 - 1983 - Retreat
No. 90 - 1983 - Space Creatures
No. 92 - 1983 - Quits
No. 92 - 1983 - The Big Benefit Reading
No. 92 - 1983 - Sick
No. 93 - 1984 - And Then We Got The Green
No. 93 - 1984 - Some Of My Readers
No. 94 - 1984 - Of Course
No. 94 - 1984 - Swinging From The Dumb Hook
No. 94 - 1984 - Promenade
No. 95 - 1984 - Dog Fight
No. 95 - 1984 - Counter
No. 95 - 1984 - Locks
No. 95 - 1984 - American Literature II
No. 95 - 1984 - The Vampires
No. 95 - 1984 - Horse
No. 95 - 1984 - My Soul Is Gone
No. 95 - 1984 - Fight
No. 95 - 1984 - Independence Day
No. 95 - 1984 - The Other Room
No. 95 - 1984 - Token Drunk
No. 95 - 1984 - War
No. 95 - 1984 - Guest
No. 95 - 1984 - The Wavering Line
No. 95 - 1984 - Dead Dog
No. 95 - 1984 - Talking To The Barkeep
No. 95 - 1984 - There Are So Many Houses And Dark Streets Without Help
No. 95 - 1984 - The Cats' Behinds
No. 95 - 1984 - The Payoff
No. 95 - 1984 - Gift
No. 95 - 1984 - A Boor
No. 95 - 1984 - Let It Go
No. 95 - 1984 - The Girls
No. 95 - 1984 - They Can Ruin Your Day
No. 95 - 1984 - Horses Don't Bet On People And Neither Do I
No. 95 - 1984 - Do You Use A Notebook?
No. 95 - 1984 - Kenyon Review, After The Sandstorm
No. 95 - 1984 - In My Day We Used To Call It Pussy-Whipped
No. 96 - 1984 - Confession
No. 96 - 1984 - The Mutilation Of The Species
No. 97 - 1985 - My Big Fling
No. 97 - 1985 - The Man At The Piano
No. 97 - 1985 - The Miracle Man
No. 97 - 1985 - Unloading The Goods
No. 97 - 1985 - Message
No. 99 - 1985 - Purple
No. 99 - 1985 - Fun Times
No. 99 - 1985 - Puzzle?
No. 99 - 1985 - The Sadness Of The News
No. 100 - 1985 - Good Stuff
No. 100 - 1985 - Back To The Machinegun
No. 100 - 1985 - The 7 Horse
No. 100 - 1985 - An Importation
No. 100 - 1985 - Emergency
No. 100 - 1985 - The Old Movie Star
No. 100 - 1985 - Morning After
No. 100 - 1985 - One For Dear Old Dad
No. 100 - 1985 - Wrong Way
No. 100 - 1985 - Casablanca And Everything
No. 100 - 1985 - Pick Up
No. 100 - 1985 - A Close Call While Shopping
No. 100 - 1985 - 100 Jumbo Gem Clips And Some Hollywood Cigarettes
No. 101 - 1986 - Gallery
No. 101 - 1986 - Hands
No. 102 - 1986 - The Lucky Ones
No. 102 - 1986 - This Is Free, Take It, And Feel Better
No. 103 - 1986 - For The Foxes, The Defamers, The Tap Dancers, And The Dreamers Of Ballet
No. 103 - 1986 - Shut Out
No. 103 - 1986 - Result
No. 103 - 1986 - My Friend
No. 103 - 1986 - You Can't Tell A Turkey By Its Feathers
No. 104 - 1986 - The History Of A Tough Motherfucker
No. 104 - 1986 - Don't Play It Again, Sam
No. 105 - 1987 - Going On
No. 105 - 1987 - Practice
No. 105 - 1987 - How I Got Started
No. 108 - 1987 - Speed!
No. 108 - 1987 - Release
No. 109 - 1988 - Talking To A Part Of My Mailbox
No. 109 - 1988 - Save The Trees
No. 110 - 1988 - Letter To A Friend With A Domestic Problem
No. 110 - 1988 - 40 Years Ago In That Hotel Room
No. 110 - 1988 - I Been Working On The Railroad
No. 110 - 1988 - Bright Boy
No. 110 - 1988 - It's All So Clearly Simple
No. 110 - 1988 - Fingernails
No. 110 - 1988 - One Out
No. 110 - 1988 - Fooling Marie
No. 110 - 1988 - Hemingway's Shadow
No. 110 - 1988 - Swivel
No. 110 - 1988 - Transformation And Disfiguration At The P.O.
No. 110 - 1988 - Red Mercedes
No. 110 - 1988 - Macho Man
No. 110 - 1988 - The End Of An Era
No. 110 - 1988 - The Main Course
No. 110 - 1988 - The Yellow Pencil
No. 110 - 1988 - No Man Is An Island, Especially Around Hollywood Park
No. 110 - 1988 - The Tax Consultant
No. 110 - 1988 - Beauti-Ful
No. 112 - 1988 - A Sad Poem
No. 112 - 1988 - Good Morning, How Are You?
No. 113 - 1989 - Justice
No. 113 - 1989 - The Media
No. 113 - 1989 - My Doctor
No. 116 - 1989 - The State And That Begging Motherfucker, Art
No. 116 - 1989 - The Factory Crew Of South East L.A.
No. 116 - 1989 - Dear Paw And Ma
No. 117 - 1990 - She Said
No. 117 - 1990 - I Might Get Traded
No. 117 - 1990 - I Am Chastised
No. 120 - 1990 - Slicing Hell
No. 120 - 1990 - The Darlings
No. 121 - 1991 - A Mention Of Some Lucky Pay-Offs
No. 121 - 1991 - For A Man Who Walks Around My Typewriter Very Often
No. 122 - 1991 - The Mutilation Of The Species
No. 122 - 1991 - The Roaches
No. 122 - 1991 - Journey
No. 122 - 1991 - A Lady With Some French Wine
No. 122 - 1991 - Bad Times At The 3rd And Vermont Hotel
No. 122 - 1991 - Car Wash
No. 122 - 1991 - My Non-Ambition Ambition
No. 122 - 1991 - Ding-Dong
No. 122 - 1991 - Red
No. 122 - 1991 - Free Dinner
No. 122 - 1991 - Somebody
No. 122 - 1991 - My Friend, The Parking Lot Attendant
No. 122 - 1991 - Cancer
No. 122 - 1991 - Madman
No. 122 - 1991 - The Mirror Game
No. 122 - 1991 - Poem About A Lady With A Red Face And Long Blonde Hair
No. 122 - 1991 - The Famous Writer
No. 122 - 1991 - A Little Cafe On 6th Street In Pedro
No. 122 - 1991 - About Pain
No. 122 - 1991 - Drieser Wasn't So Hot Either
No. 122 - 1991 - Snake-Eyes
No. 122 - 1991 - No Nonsense
No. 122 - 1991 - A Problem
No. 122 - 1991 - Red Tennis Shoes
No. 122 - 1991 - Mailbag
No. 122 - 1991 - The Two Toughest Apes In The South Bay Area
No. 122 - 1991 - Those Girls We Followed Home
No. 122 - 1991 - The Action
No. 122 - 1991 - Just Trying To Get A Little Service
No. 122 - 1991 - A Re-Evaluation
No. 122 - 1991 - Emily Bukowski
No. 122 - 1991 - The Crazy Truth
No. 122 - 1991 - The Fighter
No. 122 - 1991 - Suitable
No. 122 - 1991 - Band-Aid
No. 122 - 1991 - Self-Invites
No. 122 - 1991 - Horse Fly
No. 122 - 1991 - Rosary
No. 122 - 1991 - Counsel
No. 122 - 1991 - A Final Word On No Final Words
No. 122 - 1991 - Each Man's Hell Is Different
No. 122 - 1991 - The Lady Who Looks Young Forever
No. 122 - 1991 - Oh, Yes
No. 124 - 1991 - The Train Station
No. 124 - 1991 - Ginsberg?
No. 124 - 1991 - They Need What They Need
No. 125 - 1992 - Problems In The Checkout Line
No. 125 - 1992 - I'm A Failure
No. 127 - 1992 - Training For Kid Aztec
No. 127 - 1992 - Zero
No. 128 - 1992 - The Sickness
No. 128 - 1992 - The Star
No. 128 - 1992 - Problems
No. 128 - 1992 - London Bridges
No. 128 - 1992 - A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat
No. 128 - 1992 - Rift
No. 129 - 1993 - Out Of Place
No. 129 - 1993 - On Being 20
No. 129 - 1993 - P.O. Box 11946, Fresno, Calif. 93776
No. 131 - 1993 - Dear Mr. Chinaski
No. 131 - 1993 - Our Curious Position
No. 131 - 1993 - She Goes For The Spin-Off
No. 132 - 1993 - Upon Splitting With The Last Woman
No. 132 - 1993 - Voice Out Of The Void
No. 132 - 1993 - The Condition Book
No. 133 - 1994 - The Highschool Girls
No. 133 - 1994 - Who's Who In America: 1984-1985, Forty-Third Edition
No. 133 - 1994 - Feeling Fairly Good Tonight
No. 135 - 1994 - The Announcer
No. 135 - 1994 - He Left
No. 135 - 1994 - O Tempora! O Mores!
No. 136 - 1994 - Progress
No. 136 - 1994 - The Uninitiated
No. 136 - 1994 - The Skaters
No. 137 - 1995 - Observations On Music By An Alcoholic
No. 137 - 1995 - D. April 9, 1553
No. 137 - 1995 - Strange
No. 137 - 1995 - The Masses
No. 138 - 1995 - Interview
No. 138 - 1995 - Snapshot
No. 138 - 1995 - The Fool Dines Out
No. 140 - 1995 - The Lady In The Castle And The Lady Not In The Castle
No. 140 - 1995 - Coffee
No. 140 - 1995 - The Way It Works?
No. 141 - 1996 - Spinning The Ribbon
No. 141 - 1996 - Flophouse
No. 141 - 1996 - I Have This Room
No. 142 - 1996 - Funny?
No. 142 - 1996 - Vouchsafement
No. 142 - 1996 - The Soldier, His Wife And The Bum
No. 144 - 1997 - Living In A Great Big Way
No. 144 - 1997 - The Interlude
No. 144 - 1997 - Breakfast
No. 145 - 1999 - Malone, Malone
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