Charles Bukowski - American author
Just received a 'pocket book' written by none other than your favourite Bukster - Ben Pleasants. It's called "REXROTH, BUKOWSKI AND THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE", a gossipy memoir consisting of little more than one conversation with Rexroth, who, I imagine, is some sort of big deal in American literature.
Ben does another hatchet job on Buk, using Rexroth, apparently another sort of big deal in American literature, as a proxy. This time, writes Ben as ascribed to Rexroth, our man Buk wrote something that apparently sent Patchen to his grave. Come to think of it, Buk could really slay his fellow writers. First that ex-con William Wantling was done in by a story and then Patchen. Mighty is the pen!
Very well-produced booklet by The Beat Scene Press. Number 12 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book series. No. 96 of 125 numbered and signed copies. Beat Scene press always does a good job with their stuff.
I also got the magazine TRANSIT no. 6. Number 1 of 10 copies numbered 1-10. Which really means precious little. So what if they're numbered?
Another nice item in the same batch just in is Beat Scene Flyer No. 1 with Buk's poem, HUSK. An attractive little broadside.
Ben does another hatchet job on Buk, using Rexroth, apparently another sort of big deal in American literature, as a proxy. This time, writes Ben as ascribed to Rexroth, our man Buk wrote something that apparently sent Patchen to his grave. Come to think of it, Buk could really slay his fellow writers. First that ex-con William Wantling was done in by a story and then Patchen. Mighty is the pen!
Very well-produced booklet by The Beat Scene Press. Number 12 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book series. No. 96 of 125 numbered and signed copies. Beat Scene press always does a good job with their stuff.
I also got the magazine TRANSIT no. 6. Number 1 of 10 copies numbered 1-10. Which really means precious little. So what if they're numbered?
Another nice item in the same batch just in is Beat Scene Flyer No. 1 with Buk's poem, HUSK. An attractive little broadside.