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Only someone with a full run of Wormies can answer this. I am going thru mine now, but will have an answer in a couple months. Fogel missed a few, so whatever it shows in Fogel, you can safely add a couple. I seem to remember hearing 97, but the number is not confirmed. Also, Buk was in 81/82. Does that count as 2 issues? If so, then the 97 number is higher.
Bill
Bill
As I indicated, Ponder posted 92 line items, three of which were double issues, so that makes 95 that Ponder posted, and 81/82 was on his list.
Since there's some confusion here, Legs, Hips and Behind (#70/71) and People Poems (#122/123) are missing from the Wormwood Review section of the DB that Ponder posted (they are listed elsewhere in the DB). That makes a total of 99, which is the answer I was looking for, but Bill is correct that the only way to know is to go through the whole run.
So, whomever shows up next has my blessing:eek: to ask the next question.
Harold Norse?
It's also in Drinking with Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row.
According to Richmond, what did Linda B. say when greeting Steve Richmond at the wedding reception in the Siam West restaurant in 1985?
According to Richmond, what did Linda B. say when greeting Steve Richmond at the wedding reception in the Siam West restaurant in 1985?
Yep.
"There are no demons here, Steve." (p. 113 of Spinning off Bukowski).
Your turn.
"There are no demons here, Steve." (p. 113 of Spinning off Bukowski).
Your turn.
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Legs, Hips & Behind was issue #71, not #70/71. It was not a double issue.
Confusing, eh?
Bill
Gerard K H Love
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Robinson Jeffers, D. H. Lawrence, Antonin Artaud, and Ezra Pound.
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Ambreen
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I don't think he wrote any poetry. Did he ?
They were renowned for other works than their poetic ones. Did Buk really admire them as poets first ?
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No, Celine didn't write poetry that I know of. That's why I suggested Li Po instead. My list probably would have been something like Li Po, Pound, Jeffers, cummings, Catullus. But Buk knew Lawrence's prose and poetry. For example, Lawrence's poetry book Birds, Beasts and Flowers is echoed by Buk's Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail. And Bukowski wrote ALOT of poems, like Lawrence, about animals and humans' relationship to animals. And I think the long, Whitman-like line lengths in Lawrence influenced Bukowski. And he knew both Artaud's poetry and prose since he reviewed the Artaud Anthology which contains both.
But all this is up to debate. Ambreen, who do you think are Buk's favorite five poets?
But all this is up to debate. Ambreen, who do you think are Buk's favorite five poets?
Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
Oh I didn't know that ! Lawrence is one of my favorite writers, but for his novels and short stories. I've never focused on his poetry yet.
I don't really know, that is why I didn't answer to your question
mjp
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Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski and Bukowski.
But the next question belongs to Love anyway.
Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
Ok, do as if I said nothing
Of the five Mr. Love posted, I would think that only Jeffers and Lawrence are correct (maybe Artaud???). Celine never wrote any poetry that I know of (as mentioned), and Buk may have played up Pound because of the whole Sherri Martinelli thing, but I remember reading some things of his that were not complimentary of Pound. Same deal with Purdy.
I would think Douglas Blazek, Steve Richmond and perhaps Gerald Locklin should be on the list.
Then again, I didn't even have the correct answer to the question I asked, so carry on.
I would think Douglas Blazek, Steve Richmond and perhaps Gerald Locklin should be on the list.
Then again, I didn't even have the correct answer to the question I asked, so carry on.
Looks like I stirred up some questions with my question, and I guess as we wait of our Corgi Man to come up with his question, we can continue to dawdle....I've always wondered about Buk and Blazek, Richmond, Masarik, etc etc. He was VERY competitive, and I wonder whether he "really" thought they were good poets, or whether he knew he was so much better so could afford to be complimentary. You see the same thing with Robert Graves. He attacked viciously Pound, Dylan Thomas, Eliot, etc etc but then praised poets noone had never heard of and have never heard of since. I think Buk might have come out in favor of those guys because several were loosely affiliated as "meat school" poetxs (although Buk himself I don't think would consider himself part of any "school").
So maybe we're safer with mjp's answer: Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski. After all, he did wear that t-shirt with his own picture on it. :):):)
So maybe we're safer with mjp's answer: Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski. After all, he did wear that t-shirt with his own picture on it. :):):)
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Hey, I got a job, one that makes me work like I'm sewing Chinese Gucci, all right?
That line was courtesy of Hosho McPoet.
Here, this will stir up some shit: Who are the Bukowski Inner Circle?
That line was courtesy of Hosho McPoet.
Here, this will stir up some shit: Who are the Bukowski Inner Circle?
That is Ancient Chinese Secret.:D
mjp
Founding member
Well that makes two of us.