David Barker lot (1 Viewer)

[Jason]

While this isn't specifically Bukowski material, I thought it was appropriate to list it in this section for a number of reasons. I'd like to pass this on this on as a lot -- there's really some great work in here: for those of you unfamiliar with David's work, now's your chance... Aside from a couple of the more recent titles, I wasn't able to find any copies of the earlier items online, so please make a reasonable offer...

Barker, David. 12 POETS AND THEIR CARS (Salem: Rumba Train Press, 1972 & 2000) second edition [with added postscript to this edition], stapled wrappers, 25 copies, numbered and signed. Fine, as new.

Barker, David. MORNING AT FRONTAGE WOODS & TWO OTHERS FROM 1968 (Salem: Golden Prosperity Press, 1996) first edition, stapled wrappers, 50 copies, numbered and signed. Fine, as new.

Barker, David. POEMS (n.p.: privately printed, 1969 & 1996) second edition [with added postscript] stapled sheets in printed wrappers, illustrated throughout with linocuts by Barker (!), 56 copies, numbered and signed, additionally inscribed on the cover page: "...Thought you might want to see what I was doing before Bukowski came along and changed my ideas about poetry...". Fine, as new.

Barker, David. STORIES FROM THE BRINK (Leesburg: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2002) first edition, stapled wrappers, 100 copies, numbered and signed. Fine, as new. [2 copies available]

Barker, David. TWO FOR BUKOWSKI (n.p.: n.p., 1986) broadside, illustrated with portrait of Bukowski by Barker, published as Underdog Authors Series #1, signed. Fine, as new.

Mailman, Leo. GRANDDAD's BRAIN, with Additions by David Barker (Salem: Rmba Train PRess, 1995) first edition, stapled wrappers, signed by Barker on the title page.

 

[bospress.net]

I have all of these (some I have more than one of), but will say that they are great!

Bill

 

[roni]

babe, WHY are you selling your whole collection now?
this is so sad.
(or are all these doubles?)

 

[Jason]

Ah, I'm not selling the whole collection -- still have hundreds and hundreds of books and mags, broadsides, ephemera, etc... I'm trying to downsize a bit and get the book thing under control a little bit...

 

[mjp]

I'm trying to [...] get the book thing under control a little bit...

Good luck. I've never been able to do it, but have been having similar thoughts lately.

 

[Father Luke]

I've ( ... ) been having similar thoughts lately.

I got the Bachy signed by Linda King, by the way.

 

[mjp]

I thought I saw that in your hand in one of the pictures.

 

[Jason]

Really? No one?

 

[hoochmonkey9]

Jason, just sent a PM.

 

[Jason]

The Barker items have been spoken for... Thanks!

 

[Rekrab]

Hey, I just found this thread. You can't imagine how great this makes me feel .. like a real author, for Christ's sake.

 

[Jason]

And rightly so!

 

[hoochmonkey9]

can't wait to get them!

 

[Rekrab]

Now if I were smart, I'd parlay this into a big listing of my books for sale, but the fact is I'm too damned busy to even go there, so I'll just let it be for now. Maybe someday. I bet you're all amazed at the restraint I'm showing in not pimping my stuff, given this perfect in.

 

[Father Luke]

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You just keep writing, we got your back, Sir.

 

[Rekrab]

Father Luke, you're too kind. I didn't know anyone was aware of my Geocities website. Except the spammers who post ads for Viagra and replica Rolexes on the Guestbook. They always manage to find it. I hope it's sending a lot of business their way.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

got them today.
I'll dig in this weekend.

I didn't know anyone was aware of my Geocities website.

David, I've had a link on my site to your geocities page for some time now.

 

[Bukfan]

I didn't know anyone was aware of my Geocities website.

I've visited it a couple of times. Your stuff is more interesting than you may realize. Keep writing your poems!

 

[Rekrab]

got them today.
I'll dig in this weekend.

David, I've had a link on my site to your geocities page for some time now.

Thanks, hoochmoney. I've got some good company in you list of links. I feel honored.

I've visited it a couple of times. Your stuff is more interesting than you may realize. Keep writing your poems!

All I know is I've been/still am tremendously obscure, so I take that as a sign not to get too big a head.

For whoever got the above Barker lot (I read it days ago), I have to warn you there are one or two clunkers in there -- bad poems I wrote in college and reprinted years later to retain the copyright. On the positive side, I only made a few copies and those items are rare. And they won't be reprinted again if I can help it.

Which brings to mind an oddity of my entire body of work. The best poems were picked up by little magazines, and most of those have never been collected in books. The books are mostly poems the editors passed on, and I self-published them. So if a reader knows me only from my books, they haven't seen my best work. The huge exception to this trend is my Bottle of Smoke Press books, which I feel are some of my strongest work. Bill Roberts (raising hell in San Francisco as I sit here enjoying my eggs and coffee) is a great editor with fantastic perceptions and judgment. So I'm talking about my pre-BOSP days when I say my best stuff isn't in book form. What a golden opportunity for some young small press editor .. or is it evil of me to even drop a hint like that? Bill wouldn't mind; he's not a jealous editor. Enough me.

 

[Father Luke]

. . . when I say my best stuff isn't in book form. What a golden opportunity for some young small press editor .. or is it evil of me to even drop a hint like that? Bill wouldn't mind; he's not a jealous editor. Enough me.

Or. . . alternately, Bill might pick up on the idea.

:-^ (< - - - that me whistling inconspicuously. isn't it rilly cute? . . .)

 

[Rekrab]

Actually, Bill will be publishing a collection of all of my Worwmood Review poems, tentatively titled "Marvin's Picks" -- as in Marvin Malone, editor of Wormy. I know someone reading this will think Marvin was a diamond miner or an overly zealous lobotomy doctor if I don't explain that.

Also, as soon as I posted the above comment about my best poems not being in books (excepting BOSP stuff), I realized there's another exception: the collection TOO MUCH ME that Adrian Manning in the UK did a couple years back through his Concrete Meat Press -- that was some of my best. And I'd have immediately posted that correction but life had ten thousand other tasks for me that could not be put off.

And now an enterprizing young small press editor has put in a bid for some of those uncollected "best poems" down the road, so I'll quit whining. Wow. Maybe I should list stuff to sell here. This place gets results (just kidding.)

 

[mjp]

The best poems were picked up by little magazines, and most of those have never been collected in books. The books are mostly poems the editors passed on, and I self-published them. So if a reader knows me only from my books, they haven't seen my best work.

I don't know about that. Sometimes (usually) the writer is not the best judge of what is good or bad. Of course editors aren't either. It's up to the reader to decide what's best.

Sometimes you can feel like you hit a home run, but the work just doesn't connect with anyone. Or people pick through your discards and proclaim you a genius. ;)

 

[Snowball Fight]

Sometimes you can feel like you hit a home run, but the work just doesn't connect with anyone. Or people pick through your discards and proclaim you a genius. ;)

Well said!

 

[Rekrab]

mjp: you're right, of course. Some of my best stuff may be my self-published stuff, the strongest of the rejects. I've had a weird publishing career, in that as a rule, I didn't offer poems that had been published in magazines to editors looking at material for books (nor did I self publish that stuff in books), so the magazine published material that had been vetted by editors never got considered or rejected for books. The only poems that were considered when assembling a book were ones that hadn't been used in magazines. The reason for this was time and logistics. I was always in a hurry and kept lousy records, so I didn't want to take the time to figure out what had appeared where, and who or what needed to be credited when selecting poems for a book. The simple path was to just always use unpublished poems in books. Thus, almost all of my poems and stories that were in magazines are uncollected in books. It's like I had two different careers as a writer, parallel but separate. I don't think this is a common way to go. There are smarter ways to do things.