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Title: Eight manuscript poems signed by Charles Bukowski Author: Bukowski, Charles Place: San Pedro, CA Publisher: Date: 1981-1982 Description: Includes: “Gothic and etc.” 2/9/82; Bukowski marvels then lampoons how young students writing literary theses on his writing try to lionize him by calling him Gothic so their work is important when he sees it easy and useless; a photocopy of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski; published in “The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps” p.78 (2001). * “words for you” 1/26/82; unpublished; Bukowski shows his distaste for the phony self-absorbed world of artists like poets, painters, actors, and musicians in favor of the understandable and simply expressed genre of which he is the leading example in poetry; a photocopy of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. * “the eternal players” 2/9/82; unpublished; a description of typical horseplayers; eternal optimists and losers whose hope for the winning pony at least keeps them from thinking of the modern fears of the hydrogen bomb, cancer and your wife; a photocopy of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. * “to the last one:” 10/21/82; unpublished; a very short but extraordinary poem about how one of Bukowski’s many women ended love not with a whimper but a bang; a photocopy of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. * ”agnostic” 1/26/82; Bukowski gives a persuasive argument in a short, funny poem that only the religious can perform hideous acts; a photocopy of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski; published in Stance no. 3, 1982. * ”an answer to an eleventh grade student in Philadelphia” 12/22/81; Bukowski gives fatherly advice to a high school student whose poem apparently is not appreciated; a photocopy of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski; published in “Open All Night” p.353 (2000). * ”justice” 1/16/82; two French soldiers take an American G.I. off a train traveling between Germany and France horrifying his then girlfriend Linda Lee Beighle while Bukowski jealously claims it’s merely justice for the soldier looking up her legs; a photocopy of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski; published in “The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps” p.267 (2001). * “405 South” 2/9/82; unpublished; a funny poem as only Bukowski can write about the implications of a dead dog on the freeway for all of us; a photocopy of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. Together, 8 manuscript poems by Charles Bukowski. Charles Bukowski’s practice at this time was to type the poem, make a photocopy, sign and date the photocopy and send it to his publisher. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine to fine condition. Item number: 216696