Weissner, Carl

West (magazine)

Whalen, Philip

White Dove (magazine)

“White Room” (Kaja)

Whitman, Walt

Williams, Jonathan

Williams, Miller

Williams, Tennessee

Williams, William Carlos

Willie

Windfall Press

Winski, Norman

Winters, Yvor

Witt, Harold

Wolfe, Thomas

Words (Creeley)

Wormwood Review (magazine)

“WW” (Bukowski)

X

Xenia (magazine)

Y

Yorty, Sam

You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe)

Z

Zahn, Curtis

Zukofsky, Louis

Acknowledgments

The editor and publisher are grateful to the owners, institutional and private, of the letters here printed. These include:

The University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Collections

Boston University Libraries

State University of New York at Buffalo, Poetry/Rare Books Collection

Mr. Louis Delpino

Mr. Joseph Erdelac

Mr. Arthur Feldman

Mr. Carl Weissner

Some letters are reprinted from their appearance in the following books and magazines:

Magazine, 3 (1966), ed. Kirby Congdon

Down Here, 1 (1966), ed. Tom McNamara

Wormwood Review, 14 (1964), ed. Marvin Malone

All’s Normal Here: A Charles Bukowski Primer, ed. Loss Pequeño Glazier (Fremont: Ruddy Duck Press, 1985).

About the Author

CHARLES BUKOWSKI is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including the novels Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975), Women (1978), Ham on Rye (1982), and Hollywood (1989). Among his most recent books are the posthumous editions of What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (1999), Open All Night: New Poems (2000), Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967 (2001), and The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems (2001).

All of his books have now been published in translation in over a dozen languages and his worldwide popularity remains undiminished. In the years to come, Ecco will publish additional volumes of previously uncollected poetry and letters.

Seamus Cooney was born in Ireland and educated there and in the United States. He now teaches English literature at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI
AVAILABLE FROM ECCO

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)

Post Office (1971)

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)

South of No North (1973)

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 (1974)

Factotum (1975)

Love is a Dog from Hell: 1974-1977 (1977)

Women (1978)

You Kissed Lily (1978)

Play the piano drunk/ Like a percussion instrument/ Until the fingers begin to bleed a bit (1979)

Shakespeare Never Did This (1979)

Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)