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hank solo

hank solo

Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
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Maybe 9?

Bukowski only issues:
  1. Legs, Hips And Behind
  2. Horses Don't Bet On People And Neither Do I
  3. Beauti-Ful
  4. People Poems

Special Bukowski sections:
  1. Grip The Walls
  2. Night's Work
  3. 55 Beds In The Same Direction
  4. Good-By To Hollywood
  5. Good Stuff


I feel like I'm missing a couple.
 
mjp

mjp

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Okay, I kind of asked without knowing the answer. :D I had:

Grip the Walls 1964
Night's Work 1966
55 Beds in the Same Direction 1974
Legs, Hips and Behind 1978
Horses Don't Bet on People and Neither Do I 1984
Beauti-ful 1988
People Poems 1991

But hank solo is right if

Good-By To Hollywood
Good Stuff

are separately bound. That's what I was going for. So someone who has those two titles can confirm, or we can just assume hank solo is correct.

And that's why you shouldn't let me ask the questions!
 
james

james

mjp said:
But hank solo is right if

Good-By To Hollywood
Good Stuff

are separately bound. That's what I was going for. So someone who has those two titles can confirm, or we can just assume hank solo is correct.

And that's why you shouldn't let me ask the questions!
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i confirm...
 
poptop

poptop

hank solo is thinking of an obscure Bukowski poem no one has ever heard of, nor knows the name of, nor its meaning or content, and about ready to come up with the exact right answer to the sound of sincere admiration and thunderous applause. ;)
 
hank solo

hank solo

Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
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Actually, I have here a fine three-part question from my nominated trivia guy - Purple Stickpin.
Take it away Purp:

Q: What did Buk bring to his mother while she was dying in the hospital, only to find that she had passed already?
What day of the year was it?
Who was with him?
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Thanks Purp. And now folks, over to you :D
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
A rosary ?

Christmas day.

If he wasn't alone then it must've been with Jane.
 
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Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

OK, since it was my question, and HS must be snoring to beat the band about now (as I ought to be), here goes:

1. Yup. A rosary;
2. Could well be; it also could have been Christmas eve according to my source (a Buk book); so, we've got to give you that one - he may well have written it as Christmas day elsewhere;
3. Nope.

So very close, but no cigar, Bukfan; you've got to get all three parts correct. :mad:;)
 
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Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

Bill wins the kewpie doll. Or rather, 1/3 of the kewpie doll. Please send 2/3 of it to Bukfan. ;)

BTW, my source was a letter to John William Corrington on pg. 74 of Screams.... It seems to me he wrote about visiting his mother in the hospital elsewhere, but I can't remember where.
 
bospress.net

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That too, but really, I just guessed on Fry(e). Without the answers to parts 1 and 2, I would have not guessed #3, anyway.

Bill
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
Ok, here's one for all our small press afficionados:

Who was the editor of "The Black Cat Review", back in the sixties?
 
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bospress.net

bospress.net

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OK. This is a tough one.

The rarest signed Bukowski book was not published by Black Sparrow Press. In fact, there were only 26 hardover, signed copies issued and they were signed by all contributors. There was also a wraps edition, and I do now know the limitation on that one. Name the book title or the publisher. I owned a copy once, but they are SOOO rare. None on abe, and I believe that I sold mine for about $1500 5 or 6 years ago.

HINT: The answer is NOT Bottle of Smoke Press....

Bill

p.s. Of course, I'm not talking about any of those early overrun copies like "Signature". This book was published many, many years later.
 
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