Charles Bukowski - American author

We all know that B claimed that he didn't write much during the 10 year drunk period. Here he not only says that he sent a group of poems to Crews, but he also acknowledges having submitted to -and being rejected by- Poetry and Embryo? I knew Poetry published B in 1993 and 1994, but it really surprised me to see that he had tried them in the early days, especially taking into account he always despised publications such as that one. The early 50's is sure a dark period in B's life.

I suspected that B would have written stuff during the 1945-1955 period -I mean, besides the poems/stories listed in Dorbin- but since he was on the bum most of the time, I thought that he would have not bothered to submit that other stuff. I was obviously wrong.