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excellent.
thanks very much.
thanks very much.
mjp
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I was wondering the same thing, it is an odd shape. But being 1963, yeah, I would think it would have to be Poems and Drawings. I don't have a copy to compare.
And look here!
In "living on luck - selected letters 1960s-1970s Volume2" there is actually a correspondence between BUK and John William Corrington , dated March 6 1964 where mr Swastek is mentioned!!!
BUK writes;
*** Anyhow, you louse, I am still alive and and I feel that my head is no fatter than usual in spite of articles on one Bukowski in Northwest Review, Descant, Americas the, and Polish American Studies. The latter written by the Rev. Joe Swastek, Librarian of Alumni Memorial Library, SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary, St. Mary's College, St. Mary's Preparatory, Orchard Lake, Michigan. I got a letter from him this morning wondering if I had done much beside the poems and drawings in the Epos number. He wants to fuck up the library with it, which is very nice, I think. I'll send him on to various. ***
the rest (if something) is not quoted in the book,... but anyhow it is way cool....
the story continues....
cheers/
In "living on luck - selected letters 1960s-1970s Volume2" there is actually a correspondence between BUK and John William Corrington , dated March 6 1964 where mr Swastek is mentioned!!!
BUK writes;
*** Anyhow, you louse, I am still alive and and I feel that my head is no fatter than usual in spite of articles on one Bukowski in Northwest Review, Descant, Americas the, and Polish American Studies. The latter written by the Rev. Joe Swastek, Librarian of Alumni Memorial Library, SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary, St. Mary's College, St. Mary's Preparatory, Orchard Lake, Michigan. I got a letter from him this morning wondering if I had done much beside the poems and drawings in the Epos number. He wants to fuck up the library with it, which is very nice, I think. I'll send him on to various. ***
the rest (if something) is not quoted in the book,... but anyhow it is way cool....
the story continues....
cheers/
cirerita
Founding member
David,
Swastek does not mention the library at all in that article, but he says that B is "... presently the only Polish-American beatnik." He then quotes B as not being "ashamed of Poland. It is a small nation caught between big nations and this, in history, makes it a loser."
Swastek does not mention the library at all in that article, but he says that B is "... presently the only Polish-American beatnik." He then quotes B as not being "ashamed of Poland. It is a small nation caught between big nations and this, in history, makes it a loser."