[Counter-Culture] Bukowski, Charles Collection of 14 Typed Poems, and Two Illustrated Letters

1. dominion dogs deathly wasted
Los Angeles, California, 1972. Two carbon typescript sheets, each 11 x 8 1/2 (279 x 216 mm); single-spaced, typed on rectos only; stapled top left corner. Signed and dated by Bukowski in blue ink at bottom of second sheet ("Charles Bukowski/March 29, 1972"); two corrections in his hand on first sheet; Bukowski's typed Los Angeles address at top left corner. Contemporary creasing.

A seemingly unpublished poem by Bukowski.

2. skin coloring
(Los Angeles, California, 1976. Two carbon typescript sheets, each 11 x 8 1/2 (279 x 216 mm); single-spaced, typed on rectos only; stapled top left corner. Boldly signed and dated by Bukowski at bottom of second sheet ("Charles Bukowski/1-2?, 1976"), with a large original color doodle of a man holding a flower below same; with an additional crossed out signature on same. Creasing and light soiling on each sheet.

Published in Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 2, 1975-1977, p. 138 (2014), and based on a similar carbon copy.

3. everybody talks too much
San Pedro, California, ca. 1986. Three photocopied typescript sheets, each 11 x 8 1/2 (279 x 216 mm); single-spaced, typed on rectos only; stapled top left corner. Signed by Bukowski at bottom of third sheet ("Charles Bukowski"); Bukowski's typed San Pedro address at top left corner. Contemporary crease.

Published on p. 212 of You Get So Alone At Times It Just Makes Sense (Black Sparrow Press, 1986).

4. Collection of 11 Carbon Typescript Poems
Los Angeles, California, ca. 1973. Group of 11 carbon typescript poems, presumably sent to the literary magazine Slowglass (Montclair State College, New Jersey: Colorama Press, 1973), including loosely loosely (2 pp.); The Arcade Room (2 pp.); all about; it will come on padded feet carrying roses, wine and the yellow pages in its mouth; burned; something about a cat; she lost weight; the shooting of the sperm and the shooting up with love is only a partial process; Vegetables; the copulation blues; fetish. Includes two short typed letters, with large black and white illustrations by Bukowski, each signed "Buk", ca. 1973; some poems with corrections, presumably in Bukowski's hand. Scattered creasing and light soiling to each sheet.

she lost weight, Vegetables, the copulation blues, all about, and The Arcade Room, first appeared in Vol. I, No. I of literary magazine Slowglass (August 1973), and with the exception of all about, were variously republished in Slouching Towards Nirvana (2005), Come on In! (2006), and Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 1, 1959-1974 (2011). burned first appeared in Burning in Water Drowing in Flame (Black Sparrow Press, 1974), and the shooting of the sperm and the shooting up with love is only a partial process and fetish are seemingly unpublished. it will come on padded feet carrying roses, wine and the yellow pages in its mouth and something about a cat, were republished in Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 1, 1959-1974, based on different copies of carbon typescripts.

Provenance

From the private collection of Asher D. Atchick, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania