The manuscript is a file copy, and is hand-signed and dated by Charles Bukowski.
I purchased this from Red @ Baroque Books in Hollywood, CA
$950
Some versions of these manuscripts are clearly from an actual typewriter and have indications of being typed on the old, thin paper with typewriter key strikes. Around 1968-69, he started mostly keeping the originals on file and sending out carbons of his poems to editors. I believe "Nana" is a carbon manuscript copy, rather than the original typed sheet.
Also, even though it is likely a carbon, it's still considered a "manuscript poem," as that was the fashion in which he submitted his work at the time. When he started working with Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin in the late 1960s, Bukowski began to keep carbons or copies of the poems he sent out to magazines for publication. Martin would collect the poems and once he had enough quality poems to fill a book, he would publish one.
The poem “Nana” I don't believe has ever been published, there are many references to “Nana” in books like Women according to Abel Debritto's landmark book, Every Piece of the Puzzle.
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I purchased this from Red @ Baroque Books in Hollywood, CA
$950
Some versions of these manuscripts are clearly from an actual typewriter and have indications of being typed on the old, thin paper with typewriter key strikes. Around 1968-69, he started mostly keeping the originals on file and sending out carbons of his poems to editors. I believe "Nana" is a carbon manuscript copy, rather than the original typed sheet.
Also, even though it is likely a carbon, it's still considered a "manuscript poem," as that was the fashion in which he submitted his work at the time. When he started working with Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin in the late 1960s, Bukowski began to keep carbons or copies of the poems he sent out to magazines for publication. Martin would collect the poems and once he had enough quality poems to fill a book, he would publish one.
The poem “Nana” I don't believe has ever been published, there are many references to “Nana” in books like Women according to Abel Debritto's landmark book, Every Piece of the Puzzle.
See Image
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