"Watchdog" & "Age" - Ole #1, 1964

[marina del rey]

Two uncollected poems from Ole #1.

Fogel lists the magazine as containing only 2 poems, but there is a third, "Freedom," which appears in The Days Run Away.

I've also attached an advertisement (titled "Plea of Earnest") and Bukowski's bio from that issue.

 

[Ponder]

BEAUTIFUL

Why did they add the word "that" written with a pencil?

 

[mjp]

Maybe the "Plea of Earnest" is how we got Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. ;)

Thanks, I've never seen that heartfelt plea before.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

excellent. thanks mdr.

I think I might name my next dog Miller.

 

[marina del rey]

Why did they add the word "that" written with a pencil?

I'm guessing Blazek did that to all the copies. This was the first issue, and there were several typos and misprints that were hand-corrected.

There's also a seperate a sheet laid in to this issue where Blazek says something along the lines of 'I know there were a bunch of mistakes in the first issue, but I promise it'll get better in the next one, so please subscribe anyway.'

And on a side note, I have to say that the Ole series is one of my favorite of the literary mags. All the stuff has a nice edge to it.

 

[Bukfan]

Great stuff! Thanks a lot, mdr!

 

[Johannes]

Ha, that's great.

I remember reading about that "Plea of Earnest" in Screams from the Balcony but didn't know, of course, he really advertised for it that way.

 

[LickTheStar]

OK third and final time posting this: thanks for the scans. If it doesn't post this time, I'll just send a PM... jeez.

 

[Jason]

And on a side note, I have to say that the Ole series is one of my favorite of the literary mags. All the stuff has a nice edge to it.

I would agree MDR. Michael Basinski [State University of New York at Buffalo] wrote a great essay about Blazek and his making poetry 'dangerous' -- OLE #1 was "dedicated to making poetry dangerous".. I have a draft of it somewhere, I think it was later posted on the Hold site.

 

[nervas]

Wow, Watchdog is awesome! Thanks for that!!!!!

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Yeah, good stuff indeed. And it has that $1 a copy look to it that blows my mind.

 

[marina del rey]

And it has that $1 a copy look to it that blows my mind.

75 cents, actually. ;)

I would agree MDR. Michael Basinski [State University of New York at Buffalo] wrote a great essay about Blazek and his making poetry 'dangerous' -- OLE #1 was "dedicated to making poetry dangerous".. I have a draft of it somewhere, I think it was later posted on the Hold site.

Jason, I'd love to read that essay if you have a scan or a link to it.

 

[roni]

thanks marina!

 

[Rekrab]

Great stuff. $500 would have bought you a Bukowski novel manuscript. How many editors would pass that up now, even adjusted for inflation?

 

[mjp]

"Age" wound up - more or less - in The People Look Like Flowers At Last. "Watchdog" is still uncollected.

 

[Short Bus]

I wonder what is on the back of Age?
The title is What have you done?
I read God O God
as the room becomes red
and she kept screaming-the rest is a blur to me.

 

[hank solo]

I wonder what is on the back of Age?

It's the poem "freedom"

 

[mjp]

and she kept screaming
as the room became red
GOD O GOD!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

 

[Short Bus]

Thanks Hank and MJP
Horizontal dyslexia strikes again!