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[cirerita]

I think B. thought of them as previously rejected poems for chapbooks and books. They had been published in magazines, but rejected for book/chapbook publication. Until Cold Dogs, that is.

 

[mjp]

Well, I won't assume to know James' answer so we'll have to wait for him.

 

[james]

Rejected poems.

BINGO! he mentions it in screams from the balcony.

you're up...

 

[mjp]

In September of 1972 Bukowski read in San Francisco at the City Lights "poet's theater." How much was he paid for the reading? This is the reading that is shown in Taylor Hackford's Bukowski film.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I have to check at home, but I think I saw $350. someplace.

 

[mjp]

Close, but regrettably, no.

 

[james]

according to "living on luck", page 162, he was to be paid $750 for the sf reading (if they were indeed sold out as they told him they were).

 

[mjp]

Maybe he was exaggerating a bit there. In the 60 minute version of the Hackford film they pay him on camera and mention the amount a couple of times. They ask him if it's the most he's ever been paid for an hour's work, and he says it is. It's much less than $750.

 

[d gray]

i'll give it a shot without cheating - 200?

 

[mjp]

^ more...

 

[d gray]

sorry i meant to say..400?...:o

 

[james]

Maybe he was exaggerating a bit there...

well i should have noted that he wrote that estimate the day before the reading and what they told him was they were sold out at 750 people, 2 bucks a head, and he got half the door $ as payment. then he says again that $750 would be alot to him but not billy graham or something like that...

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I guess now at $375. 50 cents a head.

 

[mjp]

sorry i meant to say..400?...:o

$400 it is. You're up.

 

[d gray]

okay, on one of the audio cd's bukowski's reading of a particularly grisly poem prompts him to say - sarcastically - how if a certain person were with him "we'd really be good friends" and proceeds to say how much he hated him as a kid, calling him "false, phony" etc.

what was the poem that inspired his rap and who was he talking about?