I found myself wondering if this book was once given as a gift to David foster Wallace.
Bought this buk book and it has interesting inscription (1 Viewer)
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I found myself wondering if this book was once given as a gift to David foster Wallace.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
or it could be this guy from the Universty of Huston
Hahahaha. Certainly so!
mjp
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I don't know about "reaching deep." The problem, for me, anyway, is Bukowski mirrors Martinelli's hep cat writing affectations, and that makes the book difficult to read.
It's painful to see Bukowski engage in that kind of pandering. I get it, he was trying to pick her up, which he was trying to do with every woman he ever wrote to. Still. The pretentiousness is extra thick. It reads like two idiots trying to convince each other that they are geniuses.
It's painful to see Bukowski engage in that kind of pandering. I get it, he was trying to pick her up, which he was trying to do with every woman he ever wrote to. Still. The pretentiousness is extra thick. It reads like two idiots trying to convince each other that they are geniuses.
I tried reading this but felt like I was concussed. It's like she was txting back in the 1960s. I'll give it another shot though.
Sounds like just another day on the streets of 2019.
The editor is a seller on abebooks. You could drop him a line.
I didn't know Martinelli was getting pounded by Ezra Pound...
Sounds like just another day on the streets of 2019.
The editor is a seller on abebooks. You could drop him a line.
I didn't know Martinelli was getting pounded by Ezra Pound...
Johannes
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I think Bukowski was extra motivated in this correspondence because Sheri Martinelli was Ezra Pounds x-mistress. Motivated to show his genius skills and probably motivated to pick her up too 8-)
I always liked this book. It's true, it's hard to read because of the trying to convince each other of their geniuses and Martinellis experimental writing style, yet it's very early Bukowski, he writes her in a way he's writing nowhere else and Martinelli has some interesting pieces in it too, imo.
I still about half believe that Don't Try, Bukowskis motto and the words on his gravestone, might have come out of this correspondence. Coined by Martinelli btw. Can't prove it of course. But I remember her writing about young black kids in jail who say "don't try, man ... if you haffa try ..." and Bukowski praising this letter and being in awe.
Should dig the quote up. Maybe I'll reread the book and see how I like it now. Has been a while.
I always liked this book. It's true, it's hard to read because of the trying to convince each other of their geniuses and Martinellis experimental writing style, yet it's very early Bukowski, he writes her in a way he's writing nowhere else and Martinelli has some interesting pieces in it too, imo.
I still about half believe that Don't Try, Bukowskis motto and the words on his gravestone, might have come out of this correspondence. Coined by Martinelli btw. Can't prove it of course. But I remember her writing about young black kids in jail who say "don't try, man ... if you haffa try ..." and Bukowski praising this letter and being in awe.
Should dig the quote up. Maybe I'll reread the book and see how I like it now. Has been a while.
Pogue Mahone
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I recently purchased the photocopies of the letters that were included in the book from the editor, Steven Moore. I didn't remember this from reading the book, but it's funny how he signs his name "Charles." It may as well been "Chas..."
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