A Poet no. 5 (1983) - uncollected poems The sadness which sometimes pierces / War all the time (1 Viewer)

[hankfan]

I've scanned my copy of A Poet #5 (1983), which carries six Bukowski poems.
Two appear to be uncollected with no other appearance on record — no book, no manuscript, no other magazine in the database. As far as I can tell, they only appear in A Poet #5:

• "War All The Time" (db #3860) — the poem, not to be confused with the 1984 book of the same name.
• "The Sadness Which Sometimes Pierces" (db #3460)

Three are tied to posthumous editions, so the A Poet printing is a clean lifetime source:

• "Something Cares" (db #2776) — collected only in Come On In! (2006). This printing predates that by 23 years. (Manuscript also exists, dated 17 Aug 1983.)
• "Success?" (db #2848) — collected in The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001), but retitled there as "Introduction to chapter 4." (Manuscript dated 23 June 1983.)
• "The Pack" (db #4801) — uncollected; manuscript dated 17 Aug 1983.

One is already in print:

• "A Note To The Boys In The Back Room" (db #358) — War All the Time (1984).

Page scans attached below. Corrections welcome.

 

[Rekrab]

Thanks for posting this. No doubt I numbered among those "boys in the backroom."