No idea. Maybe they don't have an option for prose or anything beyond the posthumous poetry books, who knows. I don't know if it was even offered to them. But I know it was shopped around, so maybe they passed on it.So has HarperCollins been disappointed with sales of Buk since their take-over?
And, no offense but, change that cover art. It's ugly. Hell, I'll design the cover for free (well, free plus a copy of the book).
Yes, it looks inspirational. Like one of those books about learning about life from your dog named after a Reggae singer, or how to enrich your life by spending one day a week with a senile old fucker who keeps playing with his balls.And, no offense but, change that cover art. It's ugly.
gerald locklin,
living authors with some reputation
How about Henry Rollins? He might be up for that. What ever you do don't ask that cartoonist Roddy goddamn Doyle please!!!!! He ruined the latest Ham on Rye edition for me and I had to pick up a new copy of the black sparrow press edition to replace the one I'd lost. It's a travesty he was ever asked to do the foreword in the first place and i couldn't take another one. Good luck with things anyhow.
Jack Schwartzman, poet laureate of San Francisco,
living authors with some reputation.
[And Lawrence can't blurb a book he's publishing!]
I guess that's true, considering that people continue to discover Bukowski for the first time every day. Something I would never have guessed were it not for this forum.Yes, believe it or not, blurbs can lead to compulsive buys, especially if the authors/artists who provide the pull quote are closely linked in form, style, etc., to the author in quesion.
I know its a long shot, but Bob Dylan has mentioned Bukowski a couple of times on his Theme Time Radio Hour show. Maybe you can blurb him.