We Have a Nervous Job
by David R. Bunch

David R Bunch, whose visionary short story collection Moderan was restored to print by New York Review of Books Classics in 2018, published one poetry collection during his lifetime.  A few copies of this collection, the chapbook We Have a Nervous Job, are now available from Alba Press, a partner of Ravenna Press.   Published in 1983 by Harold Bowes, the current editor of Alba magazine, who was at the time an extremely young individual with the passion, earnestness and foresight that implies, We Have a Nervous Job is the first book-length, single-author offering from Alba Press, which later went on to publish several short-poem anthologies, and is now offered for its historical as well as poetic value.

Many of Bunch’s Moderan stories would fit comfortably in a prose poetry collection, but We Have a Nervous Job is the first collection of poetry, a second appearing from another press one month before he passed away.

Sixteen pages in length, the item is 5.5’x8.5″, stapled, and in its original published condition.  This is not a reprint, but one of only four uncirculated copies located in Harold’s files.  THIS IS THE FILE COPY