Recent content by cirerita

Hey Roni, sorry to hear that! This sucks, it really does. Looking forward to the 2021 festival somewhere in Germany! Keep up the good work. We all appreciate it very much.

"I do not need a guitar"

I'm either going blind or Bukowski made up a new word here:

https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/wormwood/wormwood_a1993v33n4i132/wormwood_a1993v33n4i132p213.pdf

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-faster-you-pour-it-down-on-charles-bukowskis-on-drinking/ How come all these reviewers are so prudish?

Another fan:

King of the Underground, p. 164.

That NYT review wasn't that bad. The guy even said Bukowski was probably wise. What else can you expect from someone who says that 2019 readers would roll their eyes after reading "Who in the Hell is Tom Jones?" Good thing he didn't review Storm for the Living and the Dead. He would have had a...

New York Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/books/review/charles-bukowski-on-drinking.html

PS, no poem has been sourced from the posthumous collections. I used either the original mss or the mag appearance, never the posthumous version. Although some poems have been collected twice or even three times, I only list the first book appearance.

Short review here: http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/features/february-2019-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri

Yet another review: https://www.popmatters.com/on-drinking-by-charles-bukowski-ed-abel-debritto-2628192002.html

Another review: https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/drinking

Another early review: https://alexanderadamsart.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/bukowski-on-drinking/

The magazine version is 66 lines long, 32 lines shorter than the original mss and 35 lines longer than the book version.