GREAT JOY - NEW BUK BOOK HAS JUST ARRIVED!

External Since: Mar 06, 2005 Posts: 10

Email me your address and I'll start Xeroxing some of the stuff and post it
on....
It's obviously the later part of his life. There's some nice bits on the
writing of Pulp. In a few of the letters he talks very openly about his
illness and mortality, but I should run these past Linda before I offer them
up.

Cheers
Joe

"THE REPUBLIC OF BUKOWSKI" <urbanasphalt DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1114817194.369902.171200@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Oh, man. You are just the kind of guy I want to know. I'm looking for
> information rather than souvenirs and such. Copies are most welcome,
> even if they're stained with coffee and beer. I'm trying to establish a
> time-line of his residences, along with maps and descriptions. I also
> want to establish some sort of chronology concerning his exploits (dog
> baptism, lawn-mowing, first drink at Baldy's, the fat Philly whore, the
> Filipino flop-house in L.A., Atlanta tar-paper shack, meeting up with
> Schroeder, the "Uncle John" incident, etc...).
>
> The format would be hum-drum alphabetical with, for example, headings
> such as "jobs" and then a list of his various employment fiascos such
> as the dog-biscuit factory, newspaper, railroad tie schlepper, post
> office and so on.
>
> I guess the most important headings would be 'women', 'publications',
> 'childhood', 'employment', 'friends and correspondents' and 'later
> life'.
>
> These are just some ideas I'm kicking around. This Sisyphean task
> might take years and I have no desire to publish this thing or make any
> money from it. Stapled and photocopied pages will be the end result,
> and I'll freely make it available to any True Bukster.
>
> Yes, it was a "12 GAUGE" calendar, but sort of cheap and black and
> white. But so what? It has some great Buk photgraphs. It also took over
> 6 months to arrive. Why so long? I can make a photocopy and send it to
> you.
>
> This encyclopaedia would not cater to the 'literature' crowd. I'm
> interested in Buk as a chronicler of American urban life and the psyche
> of the underclasses. I see Buk as a historian and journalist rather
> than a poet.
>
> Onwards to Buksterdom!
>

External Since: Apr 23, 2005 Posts: 23

Thanks. I'll send you my address soon, once I figure out how to send a
private e-mail. I can't quite make your's out.

I certainly hope that Black Sparrow (or whatever it's called now)
publishes some more Bukster correspondence so that Buksterdom can have
access to the Words themselves.

Have you thought of donating your material to an archive?