I do, suppose tho, that we might be exaggerating a little. It is our lot to make sounds in a vacumn.
And drawings. And darlings in the dawn.
Searchable Terms
Adams, John
Agenda
Aiken, Conrad
Alaric
Allen, Garth
American Mercury
Anderson, Chester
Anderson, Sherwood
Applebaum, Beverly
Apollonius
Auden, W. H.,
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bacigalupo, Massimo
Bacon, Sir Francis
Baker, Jane Cooney
Barker, George
Barnball (editor)
Barrymore, John
Bartlett, Elizabeth
Bartók, Béla
Baruch, Bernard
Baudelaire, Charles
Beckmeyer, Rick
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Behan, Brendan
Bellow, Saul
Bentley, Wilder
Blake, William
Blazek, Douglas
Borodin, Alexander
Botticelli, Sandro
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Boyle, Kay
Brailowsky, Alexander
Brahms, Johannes
Brando, Marlon
Breakthru
Brontë, Emily
Brookhauser, Frank
Broyard, Anatole
Bryan, John
Buddha
Bukowski, Charles—BOOKS:
All the Assholes in the World and Mine
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts
Crucifix in a Deathhand
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail
Ham on Rye
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands
Longshot Pomes for Broke Players
Poems Written before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window
Post Office
Run with the Hunted
A Signature of Charles Bukowski Poetry
Charles Bukowski—POEMS:
“And the Moon and the Stars and the World,”
“Antony,”
“The Ants,”
“The Best Way to Get Famous Is to Run Away,”
“Bring Down the Beams,”
“Candidate Middle of Left-Right Center,”
“Conversation in a Cheap Room,”
“Conversation on a Telephone,”
“The Day I Kicked Away a Bankroll,”
“Death of a Roach,”
“Death Wants More Death,”
“A Disorganized Poem on a Disorganized Day,”
“Down thru the Marching,”
“Drunk Again and Wondering, Wondering,”
“Fleg,”
“Hello, Willie Shoemaker,”
“Hooray Say the Roses,”
“A Horse on Fire,”
“I Get All the Breaks,”
“The Japanese Wife,”
“Layover,”
“Letter from the North,”
“The Life of Borodin,”
“A Literary Romance,”
“The Loser,”
“Not with the Sunburnt Fury of a Whitman,”
“Old Number 9,”
“Our Bread Is Blessed and Damned,”
“The Paper on the Floor,”
“Parts of an Opera,”
“Pay Your Rent or Get Out,”
“Peace,”
“Poem for Liz,”
“Poem for My Little Dog Who Also Growls Quite Well,”
“Poem for Personnel Managers,”
“Prayer for Broken-Handed Lovers,”
“The Priest and the Matador,”
“Red Bricks in My Eyes,”
“Remains,”
“Riot,”
“Scaled Like a Fish,”
“The Sex-Obsessed Ladies Walking by Me after Work,”
“So Much for the Knifers,”
“The State of World Affairs,”
“The Stupid Are Best at the Cruelties,”
“The Sun Wields Mercy,”
“Thank God for Alleys,”
“To the Whore Who Took My Poems,”
“The Tragedy of the Leaves,”
“Truth’s a Hell of a Word,”
“Vegas,”
“What a Man I Was,”
“When Hugo Wolf Went Mad,”
“Where the Hell Would Chopin Be?”
“Winter Comes in a Lot of Places in August,” 257
Bukowski, Henry (CB’s father)
Bukowski, Marina Louise
Bunting, Basil
Burnett, Whit
Burns, Robert
Capone, Al
Carpenter, Humphrey
Cassady, Neal
Castro, Fidel
Cavalcanti, Guido
Cayce, Edgar
Chamberlain, Safford
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chao Tze-chiang
Charles, Ray
Chekhov, Anton
Chesterfield, Earl of
Chirico, Giorgio de
Chopin, Frédéric
Churchill, Winston
Cocteau, Jean
Coke, Sir Edward
Coleridge, Samuel T.
Confucius
Cookson, William
Cooney, Seamus
Corneille, Pierre
Corrington, John William
Corso, Gregory
Crane, Hart
Crews, Judson
Cummings, E. E.
Cuscaden, R.R.
Dante Alighieri
Dean, Abner
Dean, Frances Elizabeth
Debussy, Claude
Degas, Edgar
De la Mare, Walter
Deren, Maya
Dillinger, John
Disraeli, Benjmain
Donne, John
Doolittle, Hilda. See H.D.
Dos Passos, John
Dostoevski, Fyodor
Dreiser, Theodore
Dryden, John
Earth
Eberhart, Richard
Edge
Eight Pager
Einstein, Albert
Einstein, Charles
Eliot, T. S.
Epos
Ernie; see Walker, E. P.
Esquire
Evidence
Fante, John
Fate
Faulkner, William
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Fett, Heinrich
Fett, Katharina
Flory, Wendy Stallard
Fort, Olivia
Franck, César
Frobenius, Leo
Frost, Robert
Frye, Barbara
Gaddis, William
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri
Gib; see Lee, Gilbert
Ginsberg, Allen
Giotto
Göring, Hermann
Gould, Stanley
Graves, Robert
Greco, El
Greek Anthology
Green, Pat
Grieg, Michael
Griffith, E. V.
Gumbiner, Richard
Handel, George Frederick
Harlequin
Harrison, Kay
Haydn, Peter
Hayter, Stanley W.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Hearse
Heckel, Erich
Hedley, Leslie Woolf
Hemingway, Ernest
Henley, William
Hitchcock, George
Hitler, Adolf
Hokusai
Homer
Hope, Bob
Horace
Hung Tzu-ch’eng
Huxley, Aldous
Ibsen, Henrik
I Ching
Ingalls, Hunter
James, Henry
Jeffers, Robinson
Jefferson, Thomas
Johnson,
Reid B.
Jones, James
Joyce, James
Kafka, Franz
Kaja (Kaye Johnson)
Kamo no Chomei
Karpman, Dr.
Kati
Kaufman, Bob
Keats, John
Kennedy, John F.
Kenyon Review
Kerouac, Jack
Kodály, Zoltán
Koestler, Arthur
Kuan-tzu
Lamantia, Philip
Larsen, Carl
Laughlin, James
Lawrence, D. H.
Layton, Irving
Lear, Edward
Lee, Gilbert (Gib; Po Li) and passim
Lewis, C. Day
Lewis, Samuel F.
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Wyndham
Light Year
Lincoln, Abraham
Literary, Artpress
Li Po
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Lovell, Dr.
Lowell, Robert
Luce, Henry R.
Lyden, Nora
MacLeish, Archibald
Mahler, Gustav
Mailer, Norman
Major, Clarence
Manolete
Markson, David
Martin, John
Martinelli, Ezio
Martinelli, Sheri—PAINTINGS
AND CERAMICS:
Ch’iang
Cleofe Santa
Daw oo
E.P.
Giotto
Isis of the Two Kingdoms
Leucothoe
Lux in Diafana
Patria
Psyche
Ra Set
Princess Ra Set
Sibylla
St. Elizabeths Madonna
Undine
Ursula Benedetta
Sheri Martinelli—OTHER WORKS:
“The Beggar Girl of Queretaro,”
La Martinelli
“Mexico, his Thrust Renews,”
Maupassant, Guy de
May, James Boyer
McClure, Michael
McCullers, Carson
McMurtry, Larry
McNaughton, William
Mead (editor)
Melville, Herman
Mendelssohn, Felix
Menebroker, Ann
Michelangelo
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Miller, Roy
Milton, John
Miró, Joan
Monroe, Marilyn
Moore, Marianne
Morris, William
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mummy
Murakami, Masayoshi
Murry, John Middleton
Mussolini, Benito
Napoleon
Naked Ear
Nash, Jay Robert
Nation
New Yorker
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nijinsky, Waslaw
Nin, Anaïs
Norman, Charles
Notes from Underground
Odlin, Reno
Ole
O’Neill, Eugene
Orlovitz, Gil
Orlovsky, Peter
Outcry
Outsider
Ovid
Parker, Charlie
Pascin, Jules
Patanjali
Patchen, Kenneth
Pavlov, Ivan
Payne, Miles
Pearson, Norman Holmes
Petrarch
Picasso, Pablo
Pillin, William
Plato
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pollock, Jackson
Po Li; see Lee, Gilbert
Pope, Alexander
Portfolio
Pound, Ezra, and passim
Pound, Omar
Pythagoras
Quagga
Quicksilver
Rachewiltz, Mary de
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ransom, John Crowe
Rasputin, Grigori
Reed, Henry
Renoir, Pierre
Rexroth, Kenneth
Richard of St. Victor
Richardson, John
Richer, Arthur
Richmond, Steve
Rommel, Erwin
Rosenbaum, Veryl
Rossetti, Christina
Rutherford (editor)
Sacred Edicts
Sandburg, Carl
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Review
Sappho
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Satis
Saturday Evening Post
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Robert
Shakespear, Dorothy
Shakespeare, William
Shapiro, Karl
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sherman, Jory
Sherman, Jory (cont.)
Sibelius, Jean
Sinclair, Upton
Skelton, John
Sloan, Willy
Snow, C.P.
Snyder, Gary
Southern Review
Spann, Marcella
Spender, Stephen
Stancioff family
Steiger, Rod
Stein, Gertrude
Steppenwolf
Stevens, Wallace
Stock, Noel
Stock, Robert
Story
Swabey, Henry
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Swinburne, Algernon C.
Targets
Tate, Allen
Taylor, Courtney
Tchaikovsky, Peter
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Terrell, Carroll F.
Theobald, John
Theroux, Alexander
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, John
Thompson, Francis
Thorne, Evelyn
Thurber, James
Today
Tolstoy, Leo
Trace
Treat, David
Trilling, Lionel
Tu Fu
Turgenev, Ivan
Van Gogh, Vincent
Vasquez-Amaral, José
Villon, François
Vivaldi, Antonio
Vogue
Wagner, Richard
Walker, E. P. (Ernie)
Wang, David
Wang Shou-jen
Wantling, William
Warren, Robert Penn
Watts, Alan
Webb, Jon, Jr.
Webb, Jon, Sr.
Whalen, Philip
Whistler, James
Whitman, Walt
Wilde, Oscar
Wilhelm, J.J.
Williams, William Carlos
Winchell, Walter
Winski, Norman
Winters, Ivor
Wolf, Hugo
Wordsworth, William
Wormwood Review
Yeats, William Butler
Yee, Tommy
Young, Robert
Zahn, Curtis
Zangwill, Israel
Acknowledgments
The majority of the letters by Charles Bukowski are from the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Additional letters by Sheri Martinelli are from the Special Collections Department of the Davidson Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Thanks to both institutions for reprint permission. Thanks also to Gunther Stuhlmann, editor of ANAIS: An International Journal; the Anaïs Nin Trust; the Beinecke Library; the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Michael Montfort; and Gilbert Lee for use of the photographs contained in this volume.
About the Authors
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, an
d brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California on March 9, 1994 at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).
During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including the novels Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975), Women (1978), Ham on Rye (1982), and Hollywood (1989). His most recent books are the posthumous collections What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (1999), Open All Night: New Poems (2000), and Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967 (2001).
All of his books have now been published in translation in over a dozen languages and his worldwide popularity remains undiminished. In the years to come Black Sparrow will publish additional volumes of previously uncollected poetry and letters.
SHERI MARTINELLI (1918-1996) was an artist, writer, model, and magazine editor. She studied ceramics at the Philadelphia School of Arts, engraving at Atelier 17, and literature with Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Federal Hospital for the Insane. Reproductions of some of her paintings were published in La Martinelli (1956), with an introduction by Pound. She edited the Anagogic & Paideumic Review (1959-70) and privately published numerous booklets of prose, poetry, and drawings.
STEVEN MOORE is the author/editor of five previous books—three on William Gaddis, one on Ronald Firbank, and an anthology of vampire poetry—and has contributed numerous essays on modern literature to a variety of periodicals. He knew Sheri Martinelli during the last dozen years of her life.
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BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail (1960)
Longshot Pomes for Broke Players (1962)
Run with the Hunted (1962)
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963)
Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (1965)
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966)
At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window (1968)
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
Fire Station (1970)
Post Office (1971)
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972)
South of No North (1973)
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 (1974)
Factotum (1975)