Buk archive at PBA auction - 4/26/07

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tomlommen

PBA Buk Sale

After every sale everything is collected, broken down, and the next sale gets ready for preview. So, last chance to see everything on display is auction day. It is nearly all set up now. First time posting. Really enjoy the site. I became a Buk fan last year after working on the Ed Blair sale. Buks' letters are incredible and it is a real treat to handle them, even if for a fleeting moment. May never see them again but always hope new things come in. There will be some more Bukowski stuff in the May 24 sale too.

If anyone has more questions on the sale or found big mistakes in the cataloguing please let me know. That's how we all learn. Want it true. I know there are a few small mistakes. It was tough sorting it especially when under a big time deadline. Wish I had more time on that. But, you guys can all figure that out.

My email: tom@pbagalleries.com

Thanks for the site and the forum. This is really great.

Tom Lommen (PBA Buk cataloguer/ fan)
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
tomlommen said:
Buks' letters are incredible and it is a real treat to handle them, even if for a fleeting moment. May never see them again but always hope new things come in.
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Well, at least you got to read them! Too bad they'll never be published.
You would'nt happen to have some x-rox copies, would you?...:D
 
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George Fox

David, Unfortunately the auction exhibition comes down the day after the sale as buyers begin to remove items they have purchased, and shipping begins immediately after people pay with credit cards etc. The good news is, on the front end, the preview is actually set up today, Tuesday, a week earlier than the announced date of Tuesday the 24th, for anyone who happens to be in the area. Stop on by...
Cheers, George Fox
 
d gray

d gray

tried to do his best but could not
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i just spent a couple of hours checking out the 'lots' online - incredible collection! i'm assuming anyone interested has already seen it but if you haven't, don't miss it! the excerpts from the linda king letters are something else. she really got under his skin. there's a cool poster from a reading in new mexico among way too much other great shit to mention. good thing i don't have any money to spend on any of it...:rolleyes:
 
mjp

mjp

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d gray said:
the excerpts from the linda king letters are something else. she really got under his skin.
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Yeah, this line comes to mind, even your god damned farts have a glory all of their own.

I liked the PBA site better when their high resolution scans weren't watermarked. ;)
 
1fsh2fsh

1fsh2fsh

I think that I think too much
Founding member
does anyone know if there will there be a way to see what these auction lots sold for? you know, for us curious nosey types?
 
mjp

mjp

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d gray said:
there's a cool poster from a reading in new mexico...
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That is listed as 1960's but it would appear to be from 1970. May 15th only fell on a Friday in '64 and '70 during that general time period, and the poster mentions All The Assholes, so it can't be '64.

May of 1970 is still an early reading, since the first one we have verified was only five months earlier.
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
From Sounes bio:

" The succes of The Bridge reading encouraged Bukowski to accept other offers to read in public...In May, he caught a train to New Mexico for a university reading...The next morning he flew up to Seattle, Washington, for an engagement at Bellevue Community College..."
 
mjp

mjp

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Oh yeah, duh. Bukowski at Bellevue.

That Sounes quote makes Bellevue sound like the third reading, but the blurb that is often associated with Bellevue says it's his fourth.

Though I'd like to see evidence of the early, early reading that was referenced in the letter to David Barker. Somehow though, it seems that Bukowski would have written about an early reading, and there's nothing in the letters or poems (that I know of) to back that up.
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
Right. I think he read twice at The Bridge. The first reading was such a succes that they persuaded him to come back next day. The Bellevue reading is indeed the fourth one.
Yes, it would be nice if we could dig up some corroborating evidence of that early reading that David attended. It's strange it's not mentioned in the bio's or anywhere else...
 
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d gray

d gray

tried to do his best but could not
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mjp said:
That is listed as 1960's but it would appear to be from 1970. May 15th only fell on a Friday in '64 and '70 during that general time period, and the poster mentions All The Assholes, so it can't be '64.
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wow - brilliant deducing! wish i'd thought of that.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
hank solo: you're probably right. I'm not too familiar with how live auctions work, but as soon as the sale ends, it'll all probably be packed and shipped.
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Ha! got the catalogue today as well. Sent the 16th, must be a speedy mailman.

Yes, nice book!
 
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tomlommen

New Mexico U. poster (lot 50)

mjp said:
That is listed as 1960's but it would appear to be from 1970. May 15th only fell on a Friday in '64 and '70 during that general time period, and the poster mentions All The Assholes, so it can't be '64.

May of 1970 is still an early reading, since the first one we have verified was only five months earlier.
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Thank you mjp for pointing that out. I updated the description on the site and will make a little salesroom announcement on that. I was tripped up by Buk's photo, looked young enough to be 60's. Still learning you know.

Tom
 
mjp

mjp

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If nominated I will not run; if elected I will not serve! ;)

Bukowski.net is a great resource because it's full of lots of great people.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
Okay, I wanna be the village idiot.

I'll try to look for that letter again this weekend, referencing the 1950s reading. I think, if it happened, it's possible Bukowski didn't talk about it because it was a small event, maybe one he wasn't overly proud of. Sometimes poets give readings and no one shows up. I once read in an empty lesbian bar -- it was late and they'd all paired off and gone home. It was just me on the stage and a couple of women at a table, and I think they left before I was done. And this is the first time I've written about that reading. Circa 1973 for all my biographers (joking...)
 
mjp

mjp

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Ha ha. I feel your pain, David. I stood in front of my share of three and four member audiences and had to work myself up to put on a passable punk rawk show. But interestingly, those were some of the best shows in my memory. The pressure is gone and you just put the pedal to the floor and try to hang on and see where the ride ends up.

Yeah, I've wondered the same thing, if maybe the early reading was related to a workshop or something that didn't necessarily fit into the Bukowski persona. You are probably on to something there.
 
cirerita

cirerita

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maybe FrancEyE knows that. She used to go to all those workshops B hated so much, but maybe he did go to them once or twice and ended up reading his stuff...
 
mjp

mjp

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Maybe it had something to do with the "poetry club that met at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles back in the 1950s and '60s" as this article mentions:

http://bukowski.net/poems/latarticle.php

As out of character as a poetry club may have seemed for Bukowski, that would seem to be 68 poems worth of evidence that he did attend.

Then again, FrancEyE may have brought those to the meetings while Bukowski never set foot in them...who knows.
 
cirerita

cirerita

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oh, she's very much alive -I think- and she should know. When I interviewed her she seemed to have a very good memory and she recalled things very clearly.
 
mjp

mjp

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's still alive, she was at the Huntington thing last year with Marina and her son.

Maybe someone here knows her and can ask her about the poetry club. I'd certainly be interested in the answer to that one.
 
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