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Adam Kirsch
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Barbet Schroeder
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Caresse Crosby (April 20, 1892 - January 26, 1970), born Mary Phelps Jacob, was a patron of the arts, poet, publisher, and peace activist. She took on the name Polly in childhood. Her parents William Hearns Jacob and Mary Phelps were both descended from American colonial families, William from the Van Renssalear family and Mary from William Phelps. At age 19, she invented the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance. Her life at first followed convention. In 1915, she married the well-to-do Richard R. Peabody, whose family had arrived in New Hampshire in 1635. They had two children, but following Richard's service in World War I, Richard turned into a drunk who loved to watch buildings burn. Polly met Harry Crosby at a picnic in 1920 and they had sex within two weeks. Their public relationship scandalized proper blue blood Boston society.
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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 - May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.
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Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress.
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francEyE aka Frances Dean Smith (March 19, 1922 - June 2, 2009), was an American poet.
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Gay Brewer
Gay Robert Brewer, Jr. (March 19, 1932 – August 31, 2007) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and won the 1967 Masters Tournament.
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Henry Chinaski
Henry Charles "Hank" Chinaski is the biographical protagonist of several works by the American writer Charles Bukowski. He appears in five of Bukowski's novels, a number of his short stories and poems, and the 1987 film Barfly. An author character, Chinaski's biography is largely based on Bukowski's own. The works featuring him are Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With the Beasts (1965), Post Office (1971), South of No North (1973), Factotum (1975), Women (1978), Ham on Rye (1982), Hot Water Music (1983), Hollywood (1989), and Septuagenarian Stew (1990). He is also mentioned briefly in the beginning of Bukowski's last novel, Pulp.
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.
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Howard Sounes
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Hugh Fox
Hugh Fox, born in Chicago in 1932, is a writer and one of the founders (along with the likes of Ralph Ellison, Anais Nin, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates and Buckminster Fuller) of the Pushcart Prize for literature. He has been published in numerous literary magazines and was the first writer to publish a critical study of Charles Bukowski.
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James Franco
James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and painter. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen films. In 2001 he played the title role in Mark Rydell's television biographical film James Dean, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film.
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John Fante
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Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as ''Norway's soul. In 1920, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the epic, Growth of the Soil''. He insisted that the main object of modern literature should be the intricacies of the human mind, that writers should describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow". Hamsun's literary debut was the 1890 psychological novel, Hunger, which some critics consider to have been an inspiration for Franz Kafka's classic short story, A Hunger Artist.
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Larry Brown (author)
:For other people of the same name, see Larry Brown (disambiguation).
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Li Po
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Linda King
Linda King (born 1940) is an American sculptor and poet. She was the girlfriend of American writer Charles Bukowski for several years in the early 1970s.
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Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said: The Italian cinema has lost one of its most original artists, one of its most personal authors (...) No one was more demanding nor more allegorical than he in showing the state of crisis of contemporary man. His best known film is La Grande Bouffe, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Ugo Tognazzi.
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Marisa Tomei
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Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.
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Matt Dillon
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.
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Meher Baba
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Mickey Rourke
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Neeli Cherkovski
Neeli (Nelson) Cherkovski (born 1945 in Santa Monica, California) is a San Francisco poet. He has written biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, with whom he co-edited the Los Angeles zine Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns, and Bob Kaufman.
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Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.
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Russell Harrison
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Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor and director, also known for his political activism. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River and Milk, as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for the former and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter.
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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and ''Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart''.
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Tu Fu
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World War I
World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
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Bukowski, Charles Filmography
- Mermaid of Venice (2011)
- L'amour dure trois ans (2011)
- Dr Nazi (2011)
- The Devil Was Hot (2010)
- Nedgång och Fall (2009)
- Syn Szatana (2008)
- There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here (2008)
- Il falso bugiardo (2008)
- The Last Straw (2008)
- Pink & Tender (2007)
- Jukebox: From Edison to Ipod (2007)
- Loren Cass (2006)
- The Suicide (2006)
- Factotum (2005)
- Frozen Food Section (2005)
- My Old Man (2004)
- Son of Satan (2003)
- Bukowski: Born into This (2003)
- Apporte-moi ton amour (2002)
- Broken-Mirror Music (2001)
- Bring Me Your Love (2000)
- The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (2000)
- Love for $17.50 (1998)
- Horseshoe (1998)
- The Living Room Festival (1995)
- Bukowski at Bellevue (1995)
- Bukowski at Bellevue (1995)
- Amor por menos (1994)
- The Blanket (1994)
- The Works III (1994)
- Lonely at the Top (1993)
- Guts (1991)
- Lune froide (1991)
- The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990)
- Love Pig (1990)
- Lune froide (1988)
- Crazy Love (1987)
- Barfly (1987)
- Barfly (1987)
- The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1987)
- The Killers (1984)
- The Killers (1984)
- Poetry in Motion (1982)
- Storie di ordinaria follia (1981)
- Supervan (1977)
- Bukowski (1973)
ALBUMS
- Consumation of Grief
- The Soldier, His Wife and the Bum
- The Genius of the Crowd
- Rain
- A Radio With Guts
- The Poetry Reading
- Short Order
- The Strongest of the Strange
- The Last Days of the Suicide Kid
- Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men
- The Most
- The Mockingbird
- The Proud, Thin, Dying
- Helping the Old
- Confession
- Fan Letter
- Are You Drinking?
- Dinosauria, We
- Luck
- We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, but We Got Rain
- One for Ging with Klux-Top
- A Trainride in Hell
- Ignus Fatuus
- Yellow
- The Coloured Birds
- From the Department of English
- The Underground
- Fire Station
- Birth
- No Lady Godiva
- Don't Come Around
- Number Six
- They, All of Them Know
- Flyleaf
- The Tragedy of the Leaves
- I Cannot Stand Tears
- A Real Thing, A Good Woman
- Man in the Sun
- One Hundred and Ninety Nine Pounds of Clay
- Free
- Hot Dog
- An Observer
- You Can't Make a Lion Out of a Butterfly
- Some People
- The White Poets
- The Black Poets
- Looking for a Job
- Another Academy
- I Met a Genius
- The Bones of My Uncle
- The Fisherman
- When Hugo Wolf Went Mad
- Trading Insults
- The Construction of the Masses
- The Flower Lover
- Love & Fame & Death
- I've Always Had Problems With Money
- The Place Didn't Look Bad
- One for the Shoeshine Man
- A Report on the Consumption of Myself
- I Was Born to Hustle Roses Down the Avenues of the Dead
- Cancer / A Short Story
- The Creation Of The Morning Line
- Death
- The Sex Fiends
- Love
- Piss And Shit
- The Death Of An Idiot
- Style
- Law
- My Friend Andre
- The Best Love Poem I Can Write At The Moment
- The Worlds Greatest Loser
- The Last Days Of The Suicide Kid
- The Shower
- Hot
- Earthquake
- The Rat
- The Shoelace
- Eighteen Cars Full Of Men Thinking Of What Could Have Been
- A Report Upon The Consumption Of Myself
- Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerk And You
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Died: ['1994-03-09']
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Charles Bukowski on Individuality
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- Duration: 7:20
- Published: 02 May 2011
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Charles Bukowski from the Bukowski tapes i like his take on how the American school system crushes people. i know it tried to destroy me as well
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Charles Bukowski "Bluebird."
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- Duration: 1:13
- Published: 27 Sep 2007
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Bukowski's "Bluebird."
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bukowski on people
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 27 Jan 2008
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
charles discusses his feelings for others
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Charles Bukowski on depression
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- Duration: 1:51
- Published: 29 Oct 2010
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Charles Bukowski on how he coped with depression.
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The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski - Part 1
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- Duration: 10:13
- Published: 29 Apr 2009
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
A documentary on Charles Bukowski by the BBC. I recorded it off BBC 2 about 15 years or so back.
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Charles Bukowski (dinosauria, we)
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- Duration: 2:00
- Published: 28 Oct 2006
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Great poem from the movie "Born into This"
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The Charles Bukowski Tapes: Number 1
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- Duration: 3:52
- Published: 21 Feb 2010
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
TheCharles Bukowski Tapes are a collection of short-interviews with the American writer/poet Charles Bukowski, filmed and assembled by Barbet Schroeder and first published in 1987 in the USA. Today, the video documentary is considered a cult classic. The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles Bukowski, sorted by topic and each between one and ten minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly) interviews Bukowski about such themes as alcohol, violence, and women, and Bukowski answers willingly, losing himself in sometimes minute-long monologues. Amongst other things, Bukowski leads the small camera team through his parentss house and his former neighbourhood, but the largest part of the interviews takes place in Bukowskis flat or backyard. The documentary includes a scene in which Bukowski reacts violently toward his wife Linda Lee. The documentary was assembled from about 64 hours of film footage, which accrued during the three-year lead time for Schroeders motion picture Barfly, for which Bukowski wrote the autobiographical script.
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Charles Bukowski
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- Duration: 5:48
- Published: 03 Mar 2007
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Charles Bukowski Fire Station (For Jane With Love)
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The Genius Of The Crowd: Charles Bukowski
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- Duration: 1:39
- Published: 19 Dec 2007
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Charles Bukowski: The Genius Of The Crowd Clip from : Born into This.
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Bukowski Documentary Part 1 (of 5)
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- Duration: 10:02
- Published: 15 Feb 2010
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Part 1 of the Taylor Hackford documentary on Charles Bukowski from 1973. This is a 46 minute version of the film shown on PBS. Excuse the quality, but I guess a scuffed holy grail is better than none at all? :-) Enjoy, folks! English Bob
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Bukowski against Mickey Mouse
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- Duration: 3:34
- Published: 29 Dec 2007
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
a sequence from the documentary "Born into This" (John Dullaghan, 2003) with Sean Penn english with italian subtitles All rights are exclusive property of the author John Dullaghan
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The Last Days of the Suicide Kid by Charles Bukowski
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- Duration: 2:58
- Published: 31 May 2006
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Bukowski reads one of his inspiring poems to the kiddies.
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Charles Bukowski "The man with the beautiful eyes"
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- Duration: 5:42
- Published: 29 May 2008
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
Charles Bukowski "The man with the beautiful eyes"
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Charles Bukowski, "Dinosauria, we"
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- Duration: 2:34
- Published: 05 Jul 2008
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Dinosauria, we, Charles Bukowski poem from The Last Night of the Erath Poems. Bukowski voice and Photographs. Dinosauria, we Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break As political landscapes dissolve As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree As the oily fish spit out their oily prey As the sun is masked We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes Born into this Walking and living through this Dying because of this Muted because of this Castrated Debauched Disinherited Because of this Fooled by this Used by this Pissed on by this Made crazy and sick by this Made violent Made inhuman By this The heart is blackened The fingers reach for the throat The gun The knife The bomb The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god The fingers reach for the bottle The pill The powder We are born into this sorrowful deadliness We are born into a government 60 years in debt That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt And the banks will burn Money will be useless There will be <b>...</b>
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5mtl.com Charles Bukowski kicking his soon to be fiancé
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- Duration: 0:48
- Published: 03 Aug 2007
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
Charles Bukowski kicking and cursing out his soon to be fiancé. The moment where he mocks her is pure comic gold! Also, listen for when the director says "uh-oh".
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Charles Bukowski poem - Barfly (1987)
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- Duration: 1:53
- Published: 07 Jun 2010
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Bukowski T-Shirts at www.antiherotshirts.com Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski opposite Faye Dunaway. After a lovers tiff a bleeding Rourke composes a poem in a bathroom mirror.
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Bukowski - love is a dog from hell
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- Duration: 1:43
- Published: 29 Dec 2007
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
a sequence from the documentary "Born into This" (John Dullaghan, 2003) with Henry Dean Stanton english with italian subtitles All rights are exclusive property of the author John Dullaghan
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Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski A Last Shot On Two Good Horses
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Greatest Drunks of All Time: Charles Bukowski
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One of the greatest poets and a legend in the bar world, Charles Bukowski is the drunkard's hero. His life inspired the films Barfly and Factotem, and his approach towards writing and drinking was nothing less than epic.
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Fight from BARFLY (1987)
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Mickey Rourke vs. Frank Stallone The 2nd fight of the movie, and the much better one. This time, Charles "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" Bukowski's favorite character, Harry (Rourke) puts one over on the bulky, bar-tending bruiser Eddy (Stallone).
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Tom Waits recites "The Laughing Heart"
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- Tom Waits recites "The Laughing Heart", Bono recites "Roll The Dice" "The Laughing Heart" your life is your life don't let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you. "Roll The Dice" f you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't even start. if you're going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation. isolation is the gift, all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. and you'll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. if you're going to try, go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. do it, do it, do it. all the way all the way. you will ride life straight to perfect laughter, its the only good fight there is. Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994)
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Bukowski Documentary Part 2 (of 5)
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Part 2 of the Taylor Hackford documentary on Charles Bukowski from 1973. This is a 46 minute version of the film shown on PBS.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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My memory of undying... Poetry and Motion PICTURES VIDEO Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 March 9, 1994) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, and is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having over 60 books in print. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife." Bukowski was born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Andernach, Germany to Heinrich Bukowski and Katharina Fett. His mother was a native German who met his father, an American serviceman, after World War I had ended. Bukowski's parents were Roman Catholic.[5] He was fond of claiming that he had been born out of wedlock, but Andernach records show that his parents were in fact married a month prior to his birth After the collapse of the German economy following the First World War, the family moved to the United States in 1923, originally settling in Baltimore, Maryland. To sound more American, Bukowski's parents began calling him "Henry" and altered the pronunciation of the family name from Bu-kov-ski ([bu'kɔvski]) to Buk-cow-ski ([bu'kaʊski]; the surname is of Slavic origin). After saving money, the family moved to South Los Angeles in 1930, where his father's <b>...</b>
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| Born | Heinrich Karl Bukowski (1920-08-16)August 16, 1920 Andernach, Germany |
| Died | March 9, 1994(1994-03-09) (aged 73) San Pedro, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet, short story writer, columnist |
| Nationality | German-American |
| Literary movement | Dirty realism,[1][2] Transgressive fiction[3] |
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Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife".[6] Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski’s appeal. . . [is that] he combines the confessional poet’s promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero."[7]
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Life and work[link]
Early years[link]
Charles Bukowski was born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Andernach, Germany, to Heinrich Bukowski and Katharina (née Fett). Bukowski's mother was a native German and his father was an American serviceman of German descent.[8] His paternal grandfather Leonard had emigrated to America from Germany in the 1880s. In Cleveland, Leonard met Emilie Krausse who had emigrated from Danzig, then part of Germany. They married and settled in Pasadena. He worked as a carpenter, setting up his own very successful construction company. The couple had four children, including Henry, Charles Bukowski's father.[8]
Charles Bukowski's parents met in Andernach, in Western Germany following World War I, the poet's father posted as a sergeant in the American army of occupation following Germany's defeat in 1918.[8] He had an affair with Katherina, the German sister of a friend, and she quickly became pregnant. Charles Bukowski repeatedly claimed to be born out of wedlock, but Andernach marital records indicate that his parents married one month prior to his birth.[8][9] His father set himself up as a building contractor, set to make great financial gains in the aftermath of the war. After two years that family moved to Pfaffendorf. Given the crippling reparations being required of Germany and high levels of inflation Henry was unable to make a living, and so he decided to move the family back to America. On April 23, 1923 they sailed from Bremerhaven to Baltimore, Maryland, where they settled. Wanting a more Anglophone name, Bukowski's parents began calling their son 'Henry', which the poet would later change to Charles. They altered the pronunciation of the family name from /buːˈkɒfski/ boo-KOF-skee to /buːˈkaʊski/ boo-KOW-ski, Bukowski's parents were Roman Catholic.[8]
The family settled in South Central Los Angeles in 1930, the city where Charles Bukowski's father and grandfather had previously worked and lived.[8][9] In the '30s the poet's father was often unemployed. In the autobiographical Ham on Rye Charles Bukowski says that, with his mother's acquiescence, his father was frequently abusive, both physically and mentally, beating his son for the smallest imagined offence.[10][11] During his youth Bukowski was shy and socially withdrawn, a condition exacerbated during his teens by an extreme case of acne.[11] Neighborhood children ridiculed his German accent and the clothing his parents made him wear. Although he seemed to suffer from Dyslexia, he was highly praised at school for his art work.[8]
In his early teens, Henry had an epiphany when he was introduced to alcohol by his loyal friend William "Baldy" Mullinax, depicted as "Eli Lacross" in Ham on Rye, son of an alcoholic surgeon. "This [alcohol] is going to help me for a very long time", he later wrote, describing the genesis of his chronic alcoholism; or, as he saw it, the genesis of a method he could utilize to come to more amicable terms with his own life.[10] After graduating from Los Angeles High School, Bukowski attended Los Angeles City College for two years, taking courses in art, journalism, and literature, before quitting at the start of World War II. He then moved to New York to begin a career as a writer.[11]
On July 22, 1944, with World War II ongoing, Bukowski was arrested by FBI agents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was living at the time, on suspicion of draft evasion. He was held for 17 days in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison. Sixteen days later he failed a psychological exam that was part of his mandatory military entrance "physical" and was given a Selective Service Classification of 4-F (unfit for military service).
Early writing[link]
When Bukowski was 24, his short story, "Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip", was published in Story magazine. Two years later, another short story, "20 Tanks from Kasseldown", was published by the Black Sun Press in Issue III of Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly, a limited-run, loose-leaf broadside collection printed in 1946 and edited by Caresse Crosby. Failing to break into the literary world, Bukowski grew disillusioned with the publication process and quit writing for almost a decade, a time that he referred to as a "ten-year drunk." These "lost years" formed the basis for his later semi-autobiographical chronicles, although they are fictionalized versions of Bukowski's life through his highly stylized alter-ego, Henry Chinaski.
During part of this period he continued living in Los Angeles, working at a pickle factory for a short time but also spending some time roaming about the United States, working sporadically and staying in cheap rooming houses.[8] In the early 1950s, Bukowski took a job as a fill-in letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service in Los Angeles but resigned just before he reached three years' service.
In 1955 he was treated for a near-fatal bleeding ulcer. After leaving the hospital he began to write poetry.[8] In 1957 he agreed to marry small-town Texas poet Barbara Frye, sight unseen, but they divorced in 1959. According to Howard Sounes's Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, she later died under mysterious circumstances in India. Following his divorce, Bukowski resumed drinking and continued writing poetry.[8]
1960s[link]
By 1960, Bukowski had returned to the post office in Los Angeles where he began work as a letter filing clerk, a position he held for more than a decade. In 1962, he was traumatized by the death of Jane Cooney Baker, the object of his first serious romantic attachment. Bukowski turned his inner devastation into a series of poems and stories lamenting her death. In 1964 a daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski, was born to Bukowski and his live-in girlfriend Frances Smith, whom he referred to as a "white-haired hippie," "shack-job," and "old snaggle-tooth.".[12]
Jon and Louise Webb, now recognized as giants of the post-war 'small-press movement', published The Outsider literary magazine and featured some of Bukowski's poetry. Under the Loujon Press imprint, they published Bukowski's It Catches My Heart in Its Hands in 1963 and Crucifix in a Deathhand in 1965.
Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" for Los Angeles' Open City, an underground newspaper. When Open City was shut down in 1969, the column was picked up by the Los Angeles Free Press as well as the hippie underground paper NOLA Express in New Orleans. In 1969 Bukowski and Neeli Cherkovski launched their own short-lived mimeographed literary magazine, Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns. They produced three issues over the next two years.[citation needed]
Black Sparrow years[link]
In 1969 Bukowski accepted an offer from Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin and quit his post office job to dedicate himself to full-time writing. He was then 49 years old. As he explained in a letter at the time, "I have one of two choices – stay in the post office and go crazy ... or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve."[13] Less than one month after leaving the postal service he finished his first novel, Post Office. As a measure of respect for Martin's financial support and faith in a relatively unknown writer, Bukowski published almost all of his subsequent major works with Black Sparrow Press. An avid supporter of small independent presses, he continued to submit poems and short stories to innumerable small publications throughout his career.[11]
Bukowski embarked on a series of love affairs and one-night trysts. One of these relationships was with Linda King, a poet and sculptress. Critic Robert Peters viewed the debut of Linda King’s play The Tenant in which she and Bukowski starred back in the 1970s in Los Angeles. This play was a one-off performance. His other affairs were with a recording executive and a 23-year-old redhead; he wrote a book of poetry as a tribute of his love for the latter, titled, "Scarlet" (Black Sparrow Press, 1976). His various affairs and relationships provided material for his stories and poems. Another important relationship was with "Tanya", pseudonym of "Amber O'Neil" (also a pseudonym), described in Bukowski's "Women" as a pen-pal that evolved into a weekend tryst at Bukowski's residence in Los Angeles in the 1970s. "Amber O'Neil" later self-published a chapbook about the affair entitled "Blowing My Hero."[14]
In 1976, Bukowski met Linda Lee Beighle, a health food restaurant owner, aspiring actress and devotee of Meher Baba, leader of an Indian religious society. Two years later Bukowski moved from the East Hollywood area, where he had lived for most of his life, to the harborside community of San Pedro,[15] the southernmost district of the City of Los Angeles. Beighle followed him and they lived together intermittently over the next two years. They were eventually married by Manly Palmer Hall, a Canadian-born author and mystic, in 1985. Beighle is referred to as "Sara" in Bukowski's novels Women and Hollywood.[citation needed]
Death[link]
Bukowski died of leukemia on March 9, 1994, in San Pedro, California, aged 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. The funeral rites, orchestrated by his widow, were conducted by Buddhist monks. An account of the proceedings can be found in Gerald Locklin's book Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet. His gravestone reads: "Don't Try", a phrase which Bukowski uses in one of his poems, advising aspiring writers and poets about inspiration and creativity. Bukowski explained the phrase in a 1963 letter to John William Corrington: "Somebody at one of these places [...] asked me: 'What do you do? How do you write, create?' You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: 'not' to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks you make a pet out of it."[16]
In 2007 and 2008 there was a movement to save Bukowski's bungalow at 5124 De Longpre Ave. from destruction.[11] The campaign was spearheaded by preservationist Lauren Everett. The cause was covered extensively in the local and international press, including a feature in David S. Wills's Beatdom magazine, and was ultimately successful. The bungalow subsequently was listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument called Bukowski Court. The cause was criticized by some as cheapening Bukowski's "outsider" reputation.[17][18]
Work[link]
Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. These poems and stories were later republished by Black Sparrow Press (now HarperCollins/ECCO) as collected volumes of his work. In the 1980s he collaborated with illustrator Robert Crumb on a series of comic books, with Bukowski supplying the writing and Crumb providing the artwork.
Bukowski also performed live readings of his works, beginning in 1962 on radio station KPFK in Los Angeles and increasing in frequency through the 1970s. Drinking was often a featured part of the readings, along with a combative banter with the audience.[19] By the late 1970s Bukowski's income was sufficient to give up live readings. His last international performance was in October 1979 in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was released on DVD as There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here.[20] In March 1980 he gave his very last reading at the Sweetwater club in Redondo Beach, which was released as Hostage on audio CD and The Last Straw on DVD.[21][22]
Bukowski often spoke of Los Angeles as his favorite subject. In a 1974 interview he said, "You live in a town all your life, and you get to know every bitch on the street corner and half of them you have already messed around with. You've got the layout of the whole land. You have a picture of where you are.... Since I was raised in L.A., I've always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. I've had time to learn this city. I can't see any other place than L.A."[13]
One critic has described Bukowski's fiction as a "detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free", an image he tried to live up to with sometimes riotous public poetry readings and boorish party behaviour.[23] Since his death in 1994 Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings. His work has received relatively little attention from academic critics. ECCO continues to release new collections of his poetry, culled from the thousands of works published in small literary magazines. According to ECCO, the 2007 release The People Look Like Flowers At Last will be his final posthumous release as now all his once-unpublished work has been published.[24]
In June 2006 Bukowski's literary archive was donated by his widow to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Copies of all editions of his work published by the Black Sparrow Press are held at Western Michigan University which purchased the archive of the publishing house after its closure in 2003.
Film depictions[link]
Bukowski: Born Into This, a film documenting the author's life, was released in 2003. It features contributions from Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton and Bono (U2's song "Dirty Day" was dedicated to Bukowski when released in 1993).
In 1981, the Italian director Marco Ferreri made a film, Storie di ordinaria follia aka Tales of Ordinary Madness, loosely based on the short stories of Bukowski; Ben Gazzara played the role of Bukowski's character.[25]
Barfly (1987) starred Mickey Rourke as Henry Chinaski (Bukowski) and Faye Dunaway as Wanda Wilcox (his lover). Sean Penn had offered to play the part of Chinaski (Bukowski) for as little as a dollar as long as his friend Dennis Hopper would provide direction, but the European director Barbet Schroeder had invested many years and thousands of dollars in the project and Bukowski felt Schroeder deserved to make it.[citation needed] Bukowski wrote the screenplay for the film and appears as a bar patron in a brief cameo.
Also in 1987 a small Belgian film called Crazy Love came out, with script co-written by Bukowski himself. The film was loosely based upon 3 frequently-told episodes from his life.
A film adaptation of Factotum, starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, and Marisa Tomei, was released in 2005.
In 2011, the actor James Franco publicly stated that he is in the process of making a film adaptation of Bukowski's novel Ham on Rye.[26] He is currently writing the script with his brother David Franco and explained that his reason for wanting to make the film is because "Ham on Rye is one of my favorite books of all time."
Major works[link]
Novels[link]
- Post Office (1971)
- Factotum (1975)
- Women (1978)
- Ham on Rye (1982)
- Hollywood (1989)
- Pulp (1994)
Poetry collections[link]
- Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail (1960)
- Poems and Drawings (1962)
- Longshot Poems 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)
- The Genius of the Crowd (1966)
- 2 by Bukowski (1967)
- The Curtains Are Waving (1967)
- At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
- Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 story Window (1968)
- A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
- The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
- Fire Station (1970)
- Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)
- Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems (1972)
- While the Music Played (1973)
- Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974)
- Africa, Paris, Greece (1975)
- Scarlet (1976)
- Maybe Tomorrow (1977)
- Legs, Hips and Behind (1978)
- Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977)
- Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)
- Dangling in the Tournefortia (1982)
- War All the Time (book)|War All the Time (1984)
- Horses Don't Bet on People & Neither Do I (1984)
- You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)
- The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988)
- Beauti-ful & Other Long Poems (1988)
- Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (1990)
- People Poems (1991)
- The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
- Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories (1996)
- Bone Palace Ballet (book)|Bone Palace Ballet (1998)
- What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire. (1999)
- Open All Night (book)|Open All Night (2000)
- The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps (2001)
- Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way (2003)
- As Buddha smiles (2003)
- The Flash of the Lightning Behind the Mountain (2004)
- Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
- Come on In! (2006)
- The People Look Like Flowers at Last (2007)
- The Pleasures of the Damned (2007)
- The Continual Condition (2009)
Short story chapbooks and collections[link]
- Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
- All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966)
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
- Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972) ISBN 978-0-87286-061-2
- South of No North (1973)
- Hot Water Music (1983)
- Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983)
- Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays (2008) ISBN 978-0-87286-492-4.
- Absence of the Hero (2010)
- More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011)
Nonfiction books[link]
- Shakespeare Never Did This (1979); expanded (1995)
- The Bukowski/Purdy Letters (1983)
- Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters (1993)
- Living on Luck: Selected Letters, vol. 2 (1995)
- The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998)
- Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters, vol. 3 (1999)
- Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondense of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli (2001)
Screenplays[link]
- Barfly (1984)
Films[link]
- Bukowski at Bellevue 1970 – Poetry Reading
- Supervan 1977 – Feature Film (Not based on Bukowski's work but Bukowski had cameo appearance as Wet T-Shirt Contest Water Boy)
- There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here – Filmed: 1979; DVD Release: 2008 – Poetry Reading
- The Last Straw – Filmed: 1980; DVD Release: 2008 – Poetry Reading
- Tales of Ordinary Madness – Feature Film
- Poetry In Motion 1982 – General Poetry Documentary
- Barfly 1987 – Feature Film
- Crazy Love 1987 – Feature Film (Belgium)
- Bukowski: Born Into This 2002 – Biographical Documentary
- Factotum 2005 – Feature Film
- The Suicide 2006 – Short film
- One Tough Mother 2010 Released on DVD – Poetry Reading
Major biographies and bibliographies[link]
- Hugh Fox – Charles Bukowski: A Critical and Bibliographical Study (1969)
- Neeli Cherkovski – Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski (1991)
- Russell Harrison – Against The American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski (1994)
- Gay Brewer – Charles Bukowski: Twayne's United States Authors Series (1997)
- Howard Sounes – Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (1998)
- Ben Pleasants – Visceral Bukowski (2004)
- David Charlson – Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast
- Aaron Krumhansl – A Descriptive Bibliography of the Primary Publications of Charles Bukowski (Black Sparrow Press, 1999)
- Al Fogel – Charles Bukowski: A Comprehensive Price Guide & Checklist, 1944–1999 (2000)
- Sanford Dorbin – A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski (Black Sparrow Press, 1969)
- Pamela Wood – "Charles Bukowski's Scarlet" (Sun Dog Press, 2010; ISBN 978-0-941543-58-3)
References[link]
- ^ Project MUSE - MFS Modern Fiction Studies - In the Country of Contradiction the Hypocrite is King: Defining Dirty Realism in Charles Bukowski's Factotum
- ^ Charles Bukowski Criticism
- ^ http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show_comment/362
- ^ a b c d Hemmingson, Michael (October 9, 2008). The Dirty Realism Duo: Charles Bukowski & Raymond Carver. Borgo Press. pp. 70, 71. ISBN 1-4344-0257-6.
- ^ a b c d e f Charlson, David (July 6, 2006). Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast. Trafford Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 1-4120-5966-6.
- ^ Iyer, Pico (June 16, 1986). "Celebrities Who Travel Well". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961603-2,00.html. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
- ^ Kirsch, Adam. "Smashed." The New Yorker. 14 March 2005
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Charles Bukowski (2009) Barry Miles. Random House, 2009 ISBN 978-0-7535-2159-5
- ^ a b Sounes, Howard. Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, p. 8
- ^ a b Bukowski, Charles (1982). Ham on Rye. Ecco. ISBN 0-06-117758-X.
- ^ a b c d e Poetry Foundation of America. Bukowski Profile
- ^ Bukowski, Charles Run with the hunted: a Charles Bukowski reader, Edited by John Martin (Ecco, 2003), pp. 363-365
- ^ a b Introduction to Charles Bukowski by Jay Dougherty
- ^ Sounes, Howard. Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life. Grove Press, 1998. 275.
- ^ Ciotti, Paul. (March 22, 1987) Los Angeles Times Bukowski: He's written more than 40 books, and in Europe he's treated like a rock star. He has dined with Norman Mailer and goes to the race track with Sean Penn. Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway are starring in a movie based on his life. At 66, poet Charles Bukowski is suddenly in vogue. Section: Los Angeles Times Magazine; p12.
- ^ Living on Luck: Selected Letters 1960s-1970s Volume 2, p. 49
- ^ Wills, D. 'Saving Bukowski's Bungalow', in Wills, D. (ed.) Beatdom Vol. 2 (Mauling Press: Dundee, 2008), p. 30–33
- ^ The documentary "Bukowski: Born into This"
- ^ Excerpt from letter from Bukowski to Carl Weissner - included in ""Living on Luck Selected Letters 1960s - 1970s Volume 2"", page 276
- ^ All Movie Guide
- ^ All Movie Guide
- ^ IMDb profile
- ^ Boston Review
- ^ Amazon.com: The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
- ^ IMDB Entry
- ^ Oscar's press release. Ham on rye
External links[link]
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- Works by or about Charles Bukowski in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Profile and poems at Poetry Foundation.org
- Profile and poems at Poets.org
- "Hanging with Bukowski at the Gotlieb Center". BU Today. Boston University 26 March 2009
- Black Sparrow Press Collection − Western Michigan University Special Collections
- "Bukowski Comes to Wormwood", The Wormwood Review 1985
- "Mickey Rourke plays a tough barfly". Interview with Bukowski 10 February 1987. Chicago Sun Times
- 13 August 2000 Bukowski profile (audio, 11 mins) NPR.
- "Smashed:The pulp poetry of Charles Bukowski" by Adam Kirsch at The New Yorker 14-03-2005
- HarperCollins profile, timeline and resources
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Bukows-ki, Charles |
| Alternative names | Bukowski, Henry Charles |
| Short description | Novelist, Poet |
| Date of birth | August 16, 1920 |
| Place of birth | Andernach, Germany |
| Date of death | March 9, 1994 |
| Place of death | San Pedro, California |
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