New Trivia Thread - First with the correct answer asks the next question. (3 Viewers)

[David]

OK Gerard, you're on! I think I'd throw Shostakovich into that list too....

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Thank you, I couldn't find Shostakovich, that was posted here about a year ago. I should remember how to spell that since it ends like my wife's maiden name. Spankovich. not really.

Q: Who is the master in Bukowski's short story, I Meet the Master ?

 

[james]

john fante?

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Yes but you spelled his name wrong.

Your it James.

 

[james]

ahh, well i didn't look it up first, so i forgot how he changed his name to bante in the story.

i'll have a question up in 10 to 14 hours...

 

[strangegirl]

ok the clock is ticking...

 

[james]

in a short story, bukowski wrote, "i had to have those ears! for my wallet or my tomcat or my memory. or for under my pillow."

which short story was it? and whose ears did he want so badly?

 

[Purple Stickpin]

That would be The Great Zen Wedding from Tales.... Those were the ears of the Zen Master. They were so thin, that's what made him holy.

 

[james]

you got it, purple stickpin!
that's one of my favorite short stories of his....

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I hope this one hasn't been asked already. In how many issues of Wormwood Review did Buk appear?

 

[Ponder]

If the database is complete...

Spoiler: The Wormwood Review issues

The Wormwood Review Vol. 10 No. 1 Issue 37 - 1970
The Wormwood Review Vol. 10 No. 2 Issue 38 - 1970
The Wormwood Review Vol. 10 No. 3 Issue 39 - 1970
The Wormwood Review Vol. 10 No. 4 Issue 40 - 1970
The Wormwood Review Vol. 11 No. 1 Issue 41 - 1971
The Wormwood Review Vol. 11 No. 2 Issue 42 - 1971
The Wormwood Review Vol. 11 No. 3 Issue 43 - 1971
The Wormwood Review Vol. 11 No. 4 Issue 44 - 1971
The Wormwood Review Vol. 12 No. 2 Issue 46 - 1972
The Wormwood Review Vol. 12 No. 3 Issue 47 - 1972
The Wormwood Review Vol. 12 No. 4 Issue 48 - 1972
The Wormwood Review Vol. 13 No. 1 Issue 49 - 1973
The Wormwood Review Vol. 13 No. 2 Issue 50 - 1973
The Wormwood Review Vol. 13 No. 3 Issue 51 - 1973
The Wormwood Review Vol. 14 No. 1 Issue 53 - 1974
The Wormwood Review Vol. 14 No. 3 Issue 55 - 1974
The Wormwood Review Vol. 15 No. 1 Issue 57 - 1974
The Wormwood Review Vol. 15 No. 4 Issue 60 - 1975
The Wormwood Review Vol. 16 No. 1 Issue 61 - 1976
The Wormwood Review Vol. 16 No. 2 Issue 62 - 1976
The Wormwood Review Vol. 16 No. 4 Issue 64 - 1976
The Wormwood Review Vol. 17 No. 1/2 Issue 65/66 - 1977
The Wormwood Review Vol. 17 No. 4 Issue 68 - 1977
The Wormwood Review Vol. 18 No. 4 Issue 72 - 1978
The Wormwood Review Vol. 19 No. 1 Issue 73 - 1979
The Wormwood Review Vol. 19 No. 2 Issue 74 - 1979
The Wormwood Review Vol. 19 No. 4 Issue 76 - 1979
The Wormwood Review Vol. 2 No. 3 Issue 7 - 1962
The Wormwood Review Vol. 2 No. 4 Issue 8 - 1962
The Wormwood Review Vol. 20 No. 1 Issue 77 - 1980
The Wormwood Review Vol. 20 No. 2 Issue 78 - 1980
The Wormwood Review Vol. 20 No. 4 Issue 80 - 1980
The Wormwood Review Vol. 21 No. 1/2 Issue 81/82 - 1981
The Wormwood Review Vol. 21 No. 4 Issue 84 - 1981
The Wormwood Review Vol. 22 No. 1 Issue 85 - 1982
The Wormwood Review Vol. 22 No. 3 Issue 87 - 1982
The Wormwood Review Vol. 22 No. 4 Issue 88 - 1982
The Wormwood Review Vol. 23 No. 1 Issue 89 - 1983
The Wormwood Review Vol. 23 No. 2 Issue 90 - 1983
The Wormwood Review Vol. 23 No. 4 Issue 92 - 1983
The Wormwood Review Vol. 24 No. 1 Issue 93 - 1984
The Wormwood Review Vol. 24 No. 2 Issue 94 - 1984
The Wormwood Review Vol. 24 No. 4 Issue 96 - 1984
The Wormwood Review Vol. 25 No. 1 Issue 97 - 1985
The Wormwood Review Vol. 25 No. 3 Issue 99 - 1985
The Wormwood Review Vol. 25 No. 4 Issue 100 - 1985
The Wormwood Review Vol. 26 No. 1 Issue 101 - 1986
The Wormwood Review Vol. 26 No. 2 Issue 102 - 1986
The Wormwood Review Vol. 26 No. 3 Issue 103 - 1986
The Wormwood Review Vol. 26 No. 4 Issue 104 - 1986
The Wormwood Review Vol. 27 No. 1 Issue 105 - 1987
The Wormwood Review Vol. 27 No. 4 Issue 108 - 1987
The Wormwood Review Vol. 28 No. 1 Issue 109 - 1988
The Wormwood Review Vol. 28 No. 4 Issue 112 - 1988
The Wormwood Review Vol. 29 No. 1 Issue 113 - 1989
The Wormwood Review Vol. 29 No. 4 Issue 116 - 1989
The Wormwood Review Vol. 3 No. 3 Issue 11 - 1963
The Wormwood Review Vol. 3 No. 4 Issue 12 - 1963
The Wormwood Review Vol. 30 No. 1 Issue 117 - 1990
The Wormwood Review Vol. 30 No. 4 Issue 120 - 1990
The Wormwood Review Vol. 31 No. 1 Issue 121 - 1991
The Wormwood Review Vol. 31 No. 4 Issue 124 - 1991
The Wormwood Review Vol. 32 No. 1 Issue 125 - 1992
The Wormwood Review Vol. 32 No. 3 Issue 127 - 1992
The Wormwood Review Vol. 32 No. 4 Issue 128 - 1992
The Wormwood Review Vol. 33 No. 1 Issue 129 - 1993
The Wormwood Review Vol. 33 No. 3 Issue 131 - 1993
The Wormwood Review Vol. 33 No. 4 Issue 132 - 1993
The Wormwood Review Vol. 34 No. 1 Issue 133 - 1985
The Wormwood Review Vol. 34 No. 1 Issue 133 - 1994
The Wormwood Review Vol. 34 No. 3 Issue 135 - 1994
The Wormwood Review Vol. 34 No. 4 Issue 136 - 1994
The Wormwood Review Vol. 35 No. 1 Issue 137 - 1995
The Wormwood Review Vol. 35 No. 2 Issue 138 - 1995
The Wormwood Review Vol. 35 No. 4 Issue 140 - 1995
The Wormwood Review Vol. 36 No. 1 Issue 141 - 1996
The Wormwood Review Vol. 36 No. 2 Issue 142 - 1996
The Wormwood Review Vol. 36 No. 4 Issue 144 - 1997
The Wormwood Review Vol. 37 No. 1/2 Issue 145/146 - 1999
The Wormwood Review Vol. 4 No. 1 Issue 13 - 1964
The Wormwood Review Vol. 4 No. 3 Issue 15 - 1964
The Wormwood Review Vol. 4 No. 3 Issue 19 - 1965
The Wormwood Review Vol. 4 No. 4 Issue 16 - 1964
The Wormwood Review Vol. 4 No. 4 Issue 20 - 1965
The Wormwood Review Vol. 5 No. 2 Issue 18 - 1965
The Wormwood Review Vol. 6 No. 1 Issue 21 - 1966
The Wormwood Review Vol. 6 No. 2 Issue 22 - 1966
The Wormwood Review Vol. 6 No. 4 Issue 24 - 1966
The Wormwood Review Vol. 8 No. 1 Issue 29 - 1968
The Wormwood Review Vol. 8 No. 2 Issue 30 - 1968
The Wormwood Review Vol. 8 No. 3 Issue 31 - 1968
The Wormwood Review Vol. 9 No. 1 Issue 33 - 1969

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Well, first of all, I was looking for a number, not a counting exercise ;); and secondly, using the database that way will not give you the complete list.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I think Ponder did just fine. That was putting the Works database to proper use.

 

[Ponder]

Sorry, I needed some exercise.

 

[hank solo]

If the database is complete...

The Wormwood Review...

Ponder said 92 :)

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Actually, he "said" 95 (that's a clue, folks). Neither 92 nor 95 is (are?) correct.

 

[Ponder]

I do believe in both of you.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Okay, 94.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Ponder posted 92 line items, three of which are double issues. So 95 is the minimum at this point. But there are some missing from that portion of the database (although they are listed elsewhere).

 

[Gerard K H Love]

So, who's turn is it?

 

[Ponder]

No one's so far.
I don't know the answer to the question.

 

[bospress.net]

Only someone with a full run of Wormies can answer this. I am going thru mine now, but will have an answer in a couple months. Fogel missed a few, so whatever it shows in Fogel, you can safely add a couple. I seem to remember hearing 97, but the number is not confirmed. Also, Buk was in 81/82. Does that count as 2 issues? If so, then the 97 number is higher.

Bill

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Also, Buk was in 81/82. Does that count as 2 issues? If so, then the 97 number is higher.

As I indicated, Ponder posted 92 line items, three of which were double issues, so that makes 95 that Ponder posted, and 81/82 was on his list.

Since there's some confusion here, Legs, Hips and Behind (#70/71) and People Poems (#122/123) are missing from the Wormwood Review section of the DB that Ponder posted (they are listed elsewhere in the DB). That makes a total of 99, which is the answer I was looking for, but Bill is correct that the only way to know is to go through the whole run.

So, whomever shows up next has my blessing:eek: to ask the next question.

 

[Ponder]

Who wrote: LAUGHTER IN HELL - Charles Bukowski is Dead

 

[marina del rey]

Harold Norse?

 

[Ponder]

Correct! You guys are so fast, did you google it or..

LAUGHTER IN HELL - Charles Bukowski is Dead, by Harold Norse
was published in ATOM MIND, VOL. NO. 14, SUMMER 1994.


Your turn.

 

[marina del rey]

It's also in Drinking with Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row.

According to Richmond, what did Linda B. say when greeting Steve Richmond at the wedding reception in the Siam West restaurant in 1985?

 

[David]

Something like "there are no demons here"

 

[marina del rey]

Yep.

"There are no demons here, Steve." (p. 113 of Spinning off Bukowski).

Your turn.

 

[bospress.net]

Legs, Hips and Behind (#70/71) and People Poems (#122/123) are missing from the Wormwood Review section of the DB that Ponder posted (they are listed elsewhere in the DB).

Legs, Hips & Behind was issue #71, not #70/71. It was not a double issue.

Confusing, eh?

Bill

 

[David]

Name five of Buk's favorite poets.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Robinson Jeffers, D. H. Lawrence, Antonin Artaud, and Ezra Pound.

 

[David]

OK, you got it Corgi Man! Except I'd probably put Li Po in there instead of Celine.
By the way, what do you think of that Portuguese Water Dog in the White House? I hear they are very excitable, active, and bounding/bouncing canines....

 

[Ambreen]

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I don't think he wrote any poetry. Did he ?

D. H. Lawrence, Antonin Artaud.

They were renowned for other works than their poetic ones. Did Buk really admire them as poets first ?

 

[David]

No, Celine didn't write poetry that I know of. That's why I suggested Li Po instead. My list probably would have been something like Li Po, Pound, Jeffers, cummings, Catullus. But Buk knew Lawrence's prose and poetry. For example, Lawrence's poetry book Birds, Beasts and Flowers is echoed by Buk's Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail. And Bukowski wrote ALOT of poems, like Lawrence, about animals and humans' relationship to animals. And I think the long, Whitman-like line lengths in Lawrence influenced Bukowski. And he knew both Artaud's poetry and prose since he reviewed the Artaud Anthology which contains both.
But all this is up to debate. Ambreen, who do you think are Buk's favorite five poets?

 

[Ambreen]

But Buk knew Lawrence's prose and poetry. For example, Lawrence's poetry book Birds, Beasts and Flowers is echoed by Buk's Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail..

Oh I didn't know that ! Lawrence is one of my favorite writers, but for his novels and short stories. I've never focused on his poetry yet.

But all this is up to debate. Ambreen, who do you think are Buk's favorite five poets?

I don't really know, that is why I didn't answer to your question

Of course, he quoted a lot of them in his books but I mainly remember the names of his favourite novelists. I would say he had a liking for some beat poets, like Ginsberg. And I think having seen Whitman's name mentioned in some lines.

 

[james]

ginsberg? i highly doubt that. how about al purdy?

 

[mjp]

Name five of Buk's favorite poets.

Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski and Bukowski.

But the next question belongs to Love anyway.

 

[Ambreen]

ginsberg? i highly doubt that.

Ok, do as if I said nothing

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Of the five Mr. Love posted, I would think that only Jeffers and Lawrence are correct (maybe Artaud???). Celine never wrote any poetry that I know of (as mentioned), and Buk may have played up Pound because of the whole Sherri Martinelli thing, but I remember reading some things of his that were not complimentary of Pound. Same deal with Purdy.

I would think Douglas Blazek, Steve Richmond and perhaps Gerald Locklin should be on the list.

Then again, I didn't even have the correct answer to the question I asked, so carry on.