Charles Bukowski, born 8/16/20, Andernach, Germany. Brought to America at the age of two. Eighteen or 20 books of prose and poetry. Bukowski, after publishing prose in Story and PortfoNo stopped writing for ten years. He arrived in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital, hemorrhaging as a climax to a ten-year drinking bout. Some say he didn't die. After leaving the hospital he got a typewriter and began writing again — this time, poetry. He later returned to prose and gained some famed with his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, which he wrote mainly for the paper, Open City. After 14 years in the Post Office he resigned at age 50, he says, to keep from going insane. He now claims to be unemployable and eats typewriter ribbons. Once married, once di-vorced, many times shacked, he has a seven-year-old daughter. These dirty and immortal stories appeared mainly in Underground newspapers, with Open Chy and Nola Express leading in the publica-tion of them. Others have appeared in Evergreen Review, Knight, Fix, Berkeley Barb, Adam, and Adam Reader. With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground — people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski is a legend in his time . a madman, a recluse, a lover ... tender, vicious . , never the same ... these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and de-praved life ... horrible and holy ... you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.
Editions Gail Chiarrello - Juillet 1974 - Ensemble tres defraichi - Etat de lecture - 480 pages -
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