Woah![...] poem about showering with Linda King as a poem about Linda Lee. [...]
Thing is, there's no such a thing as "evidence" when it comes to the 30s, 40s, and early 50s, save a few letters -and B. could be contradictory in his letters!- and very few surviving documents re. his birth, marriage, etc. Those are the "unverifiable" years. If someone wrote a biography using factual evidence, the 1920-1958 period would not amount to more than 15-20 pages, and there would be quite a bit of "gloss" in those 15-20 pages.
No, no, no, no and no.But we have Ben Pleasants' memoirs...
One of the nice things about writing a dissertation on Bukowski and his writing is that you don't need to necessarily prove/disprove anything. But as you note, you sensed the BS factor. Go through Pleasant's bio a bit and then read what Buk had to say on the same subject. All you need are a few examples to opine that, while the book is out there, it shouldn't necessarily be taken as absolute truth. You don't need to disprove anything; you only need cast some doubt and then decide to draw your conclusions from other sources.I'm very grateful that you're telling me this. I will have to mention that "memoir" anyway so do you have any source I can quote to prove that he had strong biases?
and on top of that you add "biographers" who may have strong personal bias or worse. :rollfool:went to great lengths to avoid conclusions being made about himself.
Bukowski and Pleasants had a serious fall-out with each other
(from I Meet the Master)I saw Ben Pheasants there. ... We had once been buddies. But I had burnt him in a poem.
Most Germans think so. But it isn't. Not in the sense that it's forbidden to have or sell it.Is 'Mein Kampf' still outlawed in Germany?