My unpublished interview with Bukowski

[jddougher]

Finally published...

[Dead link. -ed.]

Took me long enough.

Still have more Buk stuff to work through.

It's a slog.

 

[gbsupbowl]

What year did this take place?

 

[Ponder]

Thank you, Dougherty.

 

[skiroomalum]

Hmm...must be awful to "slog" through your Buk files. Okay interview, though.

 

[roni]

Great baby, thanks a lot!

 

[d gray]

excellent!

lots of great lines, thanks for posting.

 

[miyavi]

Really interesting, especially the part about John Martin selecting all the poems for the books. Thank you very much!

 

[5:28am]

Thanks for posting the interview.

A poet must live before a poet can write, and sometimes the living must be almost enough to kill.

Agree, agree, agree...

 

[GDPR 4124]

Great interview. As mentioned before, it was really interesting to hear what Buk had to say about Martin's editing.

"The public creates its own gods and it often chooses badly because the public reflects its own image. As I go on, I write as I please and as I must. I don’t worry about critics or style or fame or lack of fame. All I want is the next line as it truly comes to me."

That's a good one.

 

[Johannes]

Thanks for sharing!

Some great lines in there.

"Writing keeps you alive because it eases the monsters in the brain by moving them to paper."
"The typewriter often sings soothing songs to the sadness in the heart."

 

[Black Swan]

Very good! Thank you.

 

[Bukfan]

Nice interview! Thanks...

 

[Erik]

Liked it.
Mange takk!

 

[Bruno Dante]

I enjoyed that interview, cheers. Good to see some posthumous Hank stuff that hasn't be edited by John Martin too ;)

 

[zobraks]

The link in the first post is dead (as well as the other links to the interview I could find).
In case one of you (unlike me) had been smart enough to save this interview for posterity, would you please post it here.

Edit: Found it and attached it.

 

[gabilager]

thanks, zobraks, for helping out those who are 4 years late.
nice interview, jay.

 

[zobraks]

You're welcome.

BTW, if any of you notice that a picture, TXT file, PDF file or any other attachment is missing from any of your (or other people's) posts - please let me know.