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"'A Bukowski sampler' brings together some of the best work from many of Bukowski's small press publications which are now out of print. Together with 'The days run away,' this book makes available much of the poetry of one of the best underground poets. Included also in this volume are one of the best stories from 'Notes of a dirty old man,' a novel excerpt, and Bukowski's autobiographical rumination, 'A rambling essay on poetics and the bleeding life...'"--Back cover.
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Content: (various drawings by Bukowski and poems and prose about Bukowski)
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Content: (various drawings by Bukowski and poems and prose about Bukowski)
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This collection contains periodicals with content written by or about the poet, novelist, and short-story writer Charles Bukowski, covering a span from 1941 to 2009, and is a subset of the Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection. The materials consist of nearly 400 issues of 248 periodicals that contain poems, short stories, interviews, excerpts, and drawings by Bukowski, as well as photographs of him, and articles or interviews about him, or in which he is mentioned. The materials span from Bukowski's first published short story "'Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip,"' which was published in Story magazine in 1941, to obituaries and articles about Bukowski and posthumously printed poems and short stories that appeared after his death in 1994. The items range from small literary journals to large weekly news magazines published in a number of countries and in a variety of languages including English, German, and French. Approximately 90 periodical titles received with this collection are not included in this finding aid but are instead cataloged individually; they may be retrieved by doing a keyword search for "Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection" in the Huntington Library Online Catalog: catalog.huntington.org. The collection inventory below contains entries listing the periodical title, issue number, date, publisher and publisher location, language (if other than English), the titles, page numbers, and authors of the Bukowski-related pieces, and a short description of the content.
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