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CHARLES BUKOWSKI T.L.S.

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CHARLES BUKOWSKI T.L.S.
<b>1297. CHARLES BUKOWSKI </b>(1920 - 1994) American beat poet and a contemporary of Kerouac and Burroughs. Fine content T.L.S. "<i>Buk</i>" with small self-portrait, 2pp. 4to., [n.p.], May 21, 1982 to Lawrence Andrews. In part: "<i>...first drink o' the night...Most writers are more obnoxious than most other things, and most writers who tend or pretend to write poetry are mostly more obnoxious than the other kind...I was 40 years old before I had a small pamphlet of poems published...I had read a great many writers...and I was disgusted and puzzled with their work...It looked like pure con and bullshit to me...the mass of it is simply boring and contrived...It did disgust me and make me drink more...I kept writing because it's a natural function like shitting...it's better...than fighting with some woman...when I thought I was going mad, making plans for the suicide route, one of my greatest escapes was reading the comic strips...if this stuff gets by, there's really no use in killing myself...I get into awful mental and spiritual; ...jams when none of the tricks work: masturbation, the bottle, or driving 90 MPH...Things have never been fair and they never will be. All we can do, friend, is plug on. Plug on...</i>". Bukowski has added a small self-portrait and a bottle of liquor beside his signature. Many holograph corrections, more fine content. Very good. <b> $250-350</b>