Collection Contents

A

Ba-Br

Br-Bu

Beiles, Sinclair

Belart, Gerard Simon

Bennett, J., Jr

Blaufuss, Bix and Denise

Blazek, Douglas

Bloom, Gene

Bukowski, Frances

Bull, Joanna

C

Cherry, Neeli

City Lights (Nancy Phillips and Joe Wolberg)

Congdon, Kirby

Connellan, Leo

Corrington, John William

Cuscaden, Robert R

D

Dinter, Ingrid

Dorbin, Sanford

E

Evanier, David

F

16 items, 5 Jan. 1970 - 18 Nov. 1972

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

16 items, 9 May 1973 - 2 Nov. 1973

9 items, 11 Jan. 1974 - [26 Oct. 1974]

3 items, n.d

Fett, Heinrich

Fife, Darlene

Fink, Robert

Fox, Hugh

G

Georgakas, Dan

Grapes, Marcus K

Griffith, E. V

H

Hackett, Philip

Hageman, Willie

Haggarty, Teddy

Hanan, John

Head, Robert

Herman, Jan Jacob

Hornisher, Anna

I

J

K

KAJA

K'dutch, Darrel

Kerrigan, Tom

King, Linda

Kryss, Tom

L

Locklin , Gerry

Ma

Me-My

McNamara, Thomas

Mahak, Orlani Cavalcanti

Malanga, Gerard

Martin, John

Malone, Marvin

Martinelli, Sheri

Menebroker, Ann [Baumann]

Micheline, Jack

Miller, Henry

N

National Endowment for the Arts

Nash, Jay Robert

Norse, Harold

O

P

Packard, William

Penfold, Gerda

Peters, Robert

Phillpot, Wayne

Potts, Charles

Purdy, Al

Qualgiano, Tony

R

Rapp, George

Richmond, Steve

Reeves, Trevor

Roman, Ulysses Grant

Rosenbaum, Jean

Rosenbaum, Veryl

Ross, Alan

S

Sedricks, Andre

Shannon, Patrick

Sherman, Jory

Silver, James

Stangos, Nikos

Starczenko, Oskana

Stone, Stephen

T

Taylor, William

U-V

W

Waluconis, Carl

Wantling, Ruth

Wantling, William

Watson, Christopher.

Weissner, Carl

Webb, Jon and Lou

Williams, Miller

Williamson, James R

Winans, Allan

Winter, Nina

X-Z

Young, Lafayette

Unknown Correspondents

Bassett, Randy

Blazek, Douglas

1 card (TCS). Mentions signings of Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. , 20 Jan. 1966

1 card (TC). Gives several possible titles for a collection of poems., [20 July 1966]

1 card (TCS). Describes seeing Confessions of a Man on a magazine rack beside Ginsberg in a photograph printed in Esquire., 18 Nov. 1966

1 card (TCS). Mentions reviews he is doing for Ole'., Nov. 1966

1 card (TCS). On the advantage of living in LA and how he is a loner., 6 Nov. 1967

1 card (TCS). Has heard that a publisher wants to bring out Notes of a Dirty Old Man in book form and requests permission to use chapters from Confessions of a Man., 12 Nov. 1967

Bukowski, Frances

Bukowski, Frances, and Marina Bukowski

Cherry [Cherkovski], Sam, and Neeli Cherry

Cherry, Claire and Sam

Cherry, Neeli

1 letter (TL). On what makes good style in poetry and who among the writers and artists had it., [1962]

1 letter (TL). Explains what he means in a poem that Cherry has taken for Black Cat Review., [1962]

1 letter (TLS). Mentions Cold Dogs in the Courtyard., 29 Apr. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Describes visit to Cherry's house and offers advice on how to write., 20 Sept. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Response to a poem about war [Vietnam?] that Cherry wrote., 28 Oct. 1965

1 letter (TLS). A note at the bottom of a letter by L. W. Currey concerning signed issues of Laugh Literary ordered for Currey's rare book store., 19 Mar. 1970

1 letter (TLS). Characterizes the women's liberation movement and mentions the taxes he paid in 1969, 13 April 1970

1 letter (TLS). Describes drinking with Harold Norse and others and notes the demand for his poems., 10 May 1970

1 letter (TLS). Describes his life as a writer now that he has quit working at the post office., 4 June 1970

1 letter (TLS). Goes into his finances. Describes reading poetry at The Bridge and his feelings about sex., [mid?] June 1970

1 letter (TLS). Includes a list of magazines where Cherry should send poems. Mentions that subscribers to Laugh Literarycomplain about never receiving issues, and blames Cherry for not mailing them., 29 June 1970

1 letter (TLS). Mentions the reading he did at The Bridge. Complains about the problems he and other writers have with money., 12 July 1970

1 letter (TLS). Lists money received [for orders of Laugh Literary and mentions other matters having to do with the publication., [23 July 1970]

1 letter (TLS). Describes how much he has written on a daily basis lately and how it took him only 20 days to write Post Office, which a German publisher has offered to buy sight unseen., 1 Sept. 1970

1 letter (TLS). Complains about who gets the Guggenheims and how he doesn't even know where to get the forms to fill out to be rejected., 20 Nov. 1970

1 letter (TLS). Notes who has been and should be sent copies of Laugh Literary., 22 Mar. 1971

1 letter (TLS). Urges Cherry to send out copies of Laugh Literary as they are requested., 12 July 1971

1 letter (TLS). Talks about waiting on the idea of the anthology of L.A. poets., 15 Oct. 1971

1 letter (TLS). Asks Cherry to look through his house for a watch that Bukowski has lost., 31 Oct. 1971

1 letter (TLS). Addressed to Sam, Neeli Cherry's father, inviting him to take the photograph for the book of stories that City Lights is about to publish., 2 Nov. 1971

1 brief note (TNS)., 8 July 1972

1 letter (TLS). Invites Cherry to participate with Bukowski and about four others in a poetry reading to be filmed by Channel 28 [PBS]., 18 Nov. 1972

1 letter (TLS). Instructs Cherry on signing the contract for payment to be split three ways [for reading poems filmed by Channel 28?]., Feb. 1973

1 letter (TLS). Concerns submissions and subscriptions [to Laugh Literary], No date

1 letter (TL). Concerns submissions to [ Laugh Literary]., No date

1 letter (TLS). Defends a poem by Ben Pleasants and asking Cherry not to cut a story [from Laugh Literary?]., No date

1 letter (TLS). Brief note concerning Laugh Literary., No date

1 letter (TLS). Questions how large drawings can be for the cover [of unnamed item]., No date

1 letter (TLS). Requests Cherry ask his father if he wants to photograph Bukowski for another book to be published by John Martin., No date.

1 letter (TLS). Mentions his rate for poetry readings [during the time that Laugh Literary was coming out]., No date

1 letter (TLS). Invites Cherry and his parents to [a party at?] Bukowski's apartment., No date

1 note (ANS). Concerns submissions., No date

Corrington, John William

1 letter (TLS). Mentions that Jon Webb is working hard on It Catches.... Has received thirty rejected poems, which he will send out again immediately., 24 June [1963]

1 letter (TLS). On not wanting to marry or live with a woman again. Says he learned to write by himself in the alley., [22] July 1963

1 letter (TLS). Criticizes Corrington for not answering his request to return his letters. Attacks Corrington for being superior., 2 Nov. 1968

Dorbin, Sanford. Librarian who helped generate interest in collecting Bukowski materials at UCSB; also a poet, editor, and the author of A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski.

1 letter (TLS). Describes episodes at poetry readings at three colleges. Also complains about an organized attempt by tenants around him to take over his parking place. This letter appears in Living on Luck., June 1970

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy]. Thanks Dorbin for his bibliography and castigates him for holding Bukowski responsible for the cassette that never reached Dorbin (the Nola Express recording of Bukowski reading poems)., 21 Dec. 1970

Editors

Goldberg, Jerry

Griffith, E. V.

1 letter (ALS) [photocopy]. Written on the bottom and back of a letter from Griffith. Concerns a possible title for the chapbook that Griffith is planning to publish., 6 June [1958]

1 letter (ALS). Offers Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail as the best title for the chapbook of poems Griffith would print., 9 July [1958]

1 card (ACS). Expresses thanks for the news of Hearse [ Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail?] in Nation and Poetry., 3 Oct. 1959

1 letter (TLS). Describes his dislike of poems in poetry magazines and the despair he feels in his own life., Dec. 1959

1 letter (TLS). Questions Griffith about the process of printing a book from clippings., 25 Apr. 1960

1 letter (TLS). Proposes promoting Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail in contributors notes and in other ways., 2 June 1960

1 letter (TLS). Informs Griffith of acceptance in Sparrow and that he will tell magazine editors who accept poems that Hearse will publish Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail. , June 1960

1 letter (TLS). Complains about how much time has passed since Griffith proposed to publish Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail. , 1 Aug. 1960

1 letter (TLS). Suggests some magazines to send review copies to. Also mentions that the publication of Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail will be half paid for by Bukowski., 6 Aug. 1960

1 letter (TLS). Complains about other chapbooks printed ahead of his., [12 Sept. 1960]

1 card (TCS). Defends himself as a lively writer who might earn money for Griffith. Still resents the slowness in bringing out the chapbook., [13 Sept. 1960]

1 letter (TLS)., 7 Oct. 1960

1 letter (TLS). Apologizes for blaming Griffith for his remarks in the previous letter and expresses unchecked gratitude for the book, now out., 14 Oct. 1960

Kerrigan, Thomas S.

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy]. Invitation to a party at Bukowski's apartment., [8 Oct. 1971?]

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy]. Thanks Kerrigan for a checklist and invites him to a New Year's party., 16 Dec. 1971

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy]., 5 Jan. 1972

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy]. From Phoenix, Arizona, where he says he will stay a month., 10 Jan. 1972

1 note (TN) [photocopy]. Announcement of a party., No date

Lowenfels, Walter.

Mallory, Lee

1 letter (TLS). Calls Post Office "not an immortal novel" but says "it does have pace and will not bore.", 9 July 1971

1 letter (TLS). Notes his depression and inability to write a coherent letter because of it., 30 Oct. 1971

1 letter (TLS). Complains about the effects of the recession on payment for stories and poetry readings., 23 Dec. 1971

1 letter (TLS). Written from Phoenix, Arizona, and comments on Jack Hirschman., 17 Jan. 1972

1 letter (TLS). Refers to offensive behavior while drunk., 17 Mar. 1972

Martin, John

1 letter (TLS)., 27 Oct. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Complains about job, apologizes for being unsociable but invites Martin over, if he will bring beer along. Also will sell him signed copies of chapbooks., 30 Oct. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Working overtime, at night. Tells Martin that if he visits, will find he is "an isolationist but not a snob." Also mentions that he split with his wife and child a week earlier., 12 Dec. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Apologizes for not having met Martin yet, due to work hours and visits to racetrack. Also talks of hopes to write a novel, just needs an advance of 200 or 300 bucks., 17 Jan. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Notes the corrections made in the proofs of Post Office. , 8 Jan. 1971

1 letter (TLS). On how lucky he is now to be able to live by his writing and how much he owes to Martin for publishing his work., Apr. 1973

Martinelli, Sheri

Menebroker, Ann [Bauman]

1 letter (TLS). Asks her to visit him if she comes to Los Angeles and offers to drive her anywhere in town., 2 Apr. 1962

1 letter (TLS). Mentions receiving praise for Dead Stay Alive Too Long in a letter from Menebroker, and how any amount of praise is dangerous to a writer., 10 May 1962

1 letter (TLS). Remarks that he is not interested in history or theory: "The best argument is a new poem.", 19 May 1962

1 letter (TLS). Advises Menebroker to stay away from poetry festivals and study her kids. Goes into other matters about writing. With ballpoint ink drawings., [21] May 1962

1 letter (TL). Mentions recently receiving copies of his third collection of poems, Run with the Hunted., 11 June 1962

1 letter (TL). Advocates not believing reviewers who praise. Says poetry does not have to be uplifting., [19?] June 1962]

1 letter (TL). Calls art madness rather than glory. Letter written while drunk., 30 June 1962

1 letter (TL). Claims he is not feeling any better and is about to crack., 17 July 1962

1 letter (TL). Brief note saying he has a telephone but rarely answers it., 24 Aug. 1962

1 card (TCS). Brief poetic note., 3 Sept. 1962

1 letter (TLS). Lists all that is wrong in his life., [4?] Sept. 1962

1 letter (TLS). Says he has recovered from depression. Postulates that the work the masses must do keeps them from sinking., 17 Sept. 1962

1 card (TCS). Notes accompanying a bobby pin., Sept. [1962]

1 letter (TLS). Brief note, mentions cummings., 3 Oct. 1962

1 letter (ALS). Explains that women who can think like herself will suffer. Offers to send her Run with the Hunted to cheer her up., 8 Oct. 1962

1 letter (TLS). A letter enclosed with an essay Menebroker has sent him., 22 Nov. 1962

1 letter (ALS). Recommends Kafka over Henry James., Late Nov. 1962

1 letter (TLS). On how he prefers simple pleasures like beer and music ("sounds") to philosophies., Mid Dec. 1962

1 letter (ALS). Written in depression after being thrown in jail for drunkenness., 18 Dec. 1962

1 letter (TLS). Announces that Jon Webb will bring out a collection of poems, It Catches My Heart in Its Hands, and that Bukowski took the title from Robinson Jeffers., 2 Jan. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Mentions that It Catches will be coming out and that he started writing at 35. With ballpoint ink drawing., [late] Jan. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Brief note on various matters; mentions he hasn't written a poem in months. With ballpoint ink drawing of Buk, with bottle in hand, at typewriter., 25 Feb. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Mentions It Catches again and that he will make nothing from its sales. Describes the lean existence of Jon and Lou Webb. With ballpoint ink drawing., [mid] Mar. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Brief letter with which he sends back $2 that Menebroker has mistakenly sent to him instead of to the Webbs for It Catches., 25 Mar. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Brief letter., 11 Apr. 1963

1 letter (ALS). Explains that It Catches will not be out for 2 more months. With ballpoint ink drawing., 17 Apr. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Briefly mentions trouble with a woman., 22 Apr. 1963

1 letter (TLS). On physical ills and how anybody should be able to get treatment for them. With ballpoint ink drawing., 1 May 1963

1 letter (TLS). On his aging and what he prefers when women visit him. With ballpoint ink drawing., 3 June 1963

1 letter (TLS). Mentions signing the "purple pages" of It Catches., 15 June 1963

1 letter (TLS). Says that 150 orders for It Catches have been received by the Webbs and that the book will not be out for a month yet., 24 June 1963

1 letter (ALS). Asks about Menebroker's car accident. With ballpoint ink drawing., June 1963

1 letter (TLS). A long two-page letter on how only one tenth of himself is a poet and nine tenths is a kind of despair. With several green ballpoint ink drawings and notations., June 1963

1 letter (TLS). Two-page letter, explaining why he drinks. Most of the letter is the poem "Mother and Son: 6-30-63.", 1 July 1963

1 letter (TLS). Briefly expresses his pleasures at hearing Menebroker's voice over the phone., 18 July 1963

1 letter (TLS). Invites Menebroker to come in September and describes himself as "pretty old.", 22 July 1963

1 letter (ALS). Says he will return to the horse races at Del Mar where he nearly went mad the year before., 29 July 1963

1 letter (TLS). On being jailed for drunkenness and on how he has never understood society. With ink and color pencil drawing., 14 Aug. 1963

1 letter (ALS). Says he would rather attend a lynching than a poetry group., 20 Aug. 1963

1 card (ACS). Brief note saying he enjoyed the telephone call from her., 11 Sept. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Comforts Menebroker who was depressed when she called. Also describes difficulty of working at the post office with hemorrhaging hemorrhoids. With ballpoint ink drawing of Buk at piano, with bottle, and dog., 16 Sept. 1963

1 card (ACS). Brief note, will write later., 23 Sept. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Brief letter, written as a poem., 25 Sept. 1963

1 letter (TLS). On various disgusts, poor health, and poem "Marionette" that he has just finished., 8 Oct. 1963

1 letter (TLS). On hemorrhaging and resting for 3 days to recover., 11 Oct. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Explains how an audience is not really there for him when he reads his poetry. With ballpoint ink drawing of flowering plant., 27 Oct. 1963

1 letter (TLS). On the Webbs' setbacks in getting out It Catches. Expects first copy in 10 days. With ballpoint ink drawing on flowering plant., 11 Nov. 1963

1 letter (ALS). Complains of lack of time and his difficulty in coping with everything., 20 Nov. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Expresses joy over the book the Webbs produced., 4 Dec. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Brief letter. With silver ink drawing., 9 Dec. 1963

1 letter (ALS). Emphasizes that he doesn't answer the telephone at night when he is working. With ballpoint ink drawing., 21 Dec. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Recalls reading a book he liked by Knut Hamsun about a nuthouse and a patient called the Suicide. With ballpoint ink drawing of flowering plant, bottle, and glass., 2 Jan. 1964

1 letter (ALS). Complains about a tenant who knocks on her ceiling when he types., 23 Jan.1964

1 letter (ALS). Says he is depressed largely because he feels his life is being consumed by small things. With ink and green marker drawing., 18 Feb. 1964

1 letter (ALS). Announces that Frances is pregnant and Cold Dogs in the Courtyard will be issued in April or May., [mid] Mar. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Notifies Menebroker of his move to a new address [probably 5124 De Longpre Ave.]. Expects Cold Dogs to come out soon., 2 Apr. [1964]

1 letter (TLS). Praises John William Corrington's The Anatomy of Love, which he has just received., 5 May 1964

1 letter (TLS). Tells Menebroker that he is "not married but might as well be.", 7 May 1964

1 letter (TLS). Says that he is always years behind., 11 May 1964

1 letter (TLS). Announces the new book of poems that the Webbs will bring out [ Crucifix in a Deathhand]: "all new stuff, none of it submitted to magazines.", 22 June 1964

1 letter (TLS). Says drinking braces him against the days better than poetry., [late] July 1964

1 letter (TLS). Considers the pros and cons of rejection. Comments on Sartre's Saint Genet, which he has been reading., 25 Oct. 1964

1 card (ACS). Brief note saying he is about to leave for New Orleans to help the Webbs with the book., 15 Feb. 1965

1 card (TCS). Describes the production of Crucifix in a Deathhand. Comments on That Summer in Paris., 20 Apr. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Two-page letter, offering highest praise for the Webbs as people and bookmakers. Says that women more and more are inheriting the reality. With drawings., [27] May 1965

1 letter (TLS). Says he doesn't send poems to The Lamp because the editors would reject them., [late] Oct. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Asks Menebroker to send his letters to Jean Rosenbaum or Veryl Rosenbaum who are planning a book of Bukowski's letters., 17 Nov. 1965

1 card (TCS). Says he will go to a doctor tomorrow. Hardly remembers poem "Beans with Garlic," and "the whole game of poetry seems rather diffuse and foggy to me.", 23 Feb. 1966

1 card (TCS). Expresses pleasure over Menebroker's acceptances and displeasure over the holidays "when the populous really becomes beastly.", 23 Feb. 1966

1 card (TCS). Calls most poets "pretenders" and says he cannot blame the masses for ignoring poetry., 11 Mar. 1966

1 letter (TLS). On France's demands for child support and his illness that keeps him from working. With drawing., 17 June 1966

1 card (TCS). Says he feels bad and will visit the doctor tomorrow., 22 June 1966

1 letter (TLS). Sends five poems with return envelope to Menebroker [a submission to the Promethean Lamp?]. Frances and Marina are away at a camp. With drawing., 25 June 1966

1 card (TCS). Gives her permission to use a letter in the Promethean Lamp. , 23 July [1966]

1 letter (TLS). Tries to account for the shame he feels for writing poetry., July 1966

1 letter (TLS). Health better; announces a "forward to be on Doug Blazek." Encourages Menebroker to bring out a book of her works., 9 Aug. 1966

1 letter (TLS)., 13 Aug. 1966

1 letter (TLS). On a new German interest in his poems and how his life has improved., [8] Sept. 1966

1 letter (TLS). On being trapped by himself and his job., [16] Oct. 1966

1 letter (TLS). On what constitutes obscenity in art., Oct. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Mentions a poem and photograph of him to appear in Dare, for which he is to receive $50., [early] Nov. 1966

1 letter (TLS). He asks for poems that he thinks have been rejected by the Promethean Lamp., 11 Dec. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Describes the little things that happen in life that "tear us to the final pieces.", 19 Jan. 1967

1 letter (ALS). Responds to a telephone call. He wants Menebroker to understand that he isn't what she thinks he is. With envelope containing abstract painting on the back., 7 Apr. 1967

1 letter (TLS). Brief complaint about feeling useless in various ways., 8 June 1967

1 letter (TLS). Says he has been reading the "Life of James Joyce in present Kenyon Review.", No date

1 letter (TLS). Mentions that Webb is almost out of material for the book [ It Catches my Heart in Its Hands]., No date [1962-1963]

1 letter (TLS). Describes the little messes in his domestic life., No date [1962-1963?]

1 letter (TLS). On the problem of doing both his job and his writing., No date [1962-1964]

1 letter (TL). Brief note. [Early in the correspondence between the two], No date

1 letter (TLS). Brief note saying he is too much in a lull even to write a letter., No date (Sunday)

1 letter (TLS). Mentions a play that Menebroker was involved with., No date

Niederman, Fred

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy]. Accepts an offer to read poetry and specifies his price and other arrangements., 17 Nov. 1971

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy]. Note saying he has returned from Phoenix and will try to attend Niederman's reading on Mar. 3., 29 Jan. 1972

Richmond, Steve

Roman, Jim [Ulysses Grant]

1 letter (TL). On Steve Richmond's poetry., 1968

1 letter (TLS). Describes some of the literary people and events that have to do with his own publications. With abstract drawing in multi-colored markers., 13 July 1964

1 letter (TLS). Letter sent with a review of John William Corrington's The Anatomy of Love and Other Poems., 14 July 1964

1 letter (TLS). A thorough account of recent developments with his own publications. With abstract drawing in multi-colored markers., [16 or 17] Nov. 1964

1 card (ACS). Announces that the review of Corrington's The Anatomy of Love will appear in Ferment 6., 8 Jan. 1965

1 letter (ALS). Describes the treatment Southerners gave him when he traveled through the South. Praises Al Purdy as a reviewer. With drawings., 11 Jan. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Another list of developments in his publications. Says Jonathan Williams did not visit him, probably because of his reputation as a mean drunk., 23 July 1965

1 letter (TLS). Promises to send two paintings to Roman. Describes his meeting with Corrington. Describes the violent racial (white-black) conflict and analyzes it., 14 Aug. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Remarks on the multiplication of mimeo publications. Printing, he adds, isn't as important as content. With drawing., 28 Aug. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Recalls being published in Portfolio in the 1940s with"Sartre, Lorca, Miller and on and on." Brings out bad relations with his father. With drawings., 26 Sept. 1965

1 card (TCS). Promises to sign what Roman sent in the mail [Bukowski's notebooks, some books, issues of little magazines with his poems in them, flyers, etc.] and to return all within a week., 26 Oct. 1965

1 letter (TLS). On writing all night., [late Oct.] 1965

1 letter (TLS). Concerning why he paints and what effect colors have on him., 27 Nov. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Note sent with books by Black Sparrow., 26 May 1966

1 letter (ALS). Informs Roman of his complex feeling about John William Corrington. With large, colorful drawing., 30 June 1968

1 letter (ALS). Updates Roman on developments in his publications, principally prospects for Notes of a Dirty Old Man., 14 Jan. 1969

1 letter (TLS). Informs Roman that signed copies of Notes of a Dirty Old Man, poem written before Jumping From an 8 Story Window, and Penguin Modern Poets 13 will be coming., 5 Feb. 1969

1 letter (TLS)., 25 Feb. 1969

1 letter (TLS). Says he doesn't have copies of several of his works. Comments favorably on the Webb Patchen book., 3 Mar. 1969

1 letter (ALS). Comments on how good Roman's collection of Bukowski publications is and offers to do what he can do find things Roman does not have. Also mentions forthcoming works. With drawing., 2 Apr. 1969

1 card (ACS). Promises to send Penguin Modern Poets 13., 7 Apr. 1969

1 letter (TLS). Describes some of the literary events recently occurring. Mentions a request by "another recording outfit" to record him reading. Laments Frances's move to New York with Marina. With small ink drawings., 14 Apr. 1969

1 letter (TLS). Says signed copies of A Bukowski Sampler and Laugh Literary are coming. Goes into new developments in his publications., [1 or 2] Aug.1969

1 letter (TLS). Announces that he is now a "member of the unemployed with nothing but a typer...to hold off the world.", [2 or 11] Jan. 1970

1 card (TCS). Concerns signing notebooks and other writings for Roman., No date

1 card (TCS). Promises to send news and signed literary materials., No date

Sherman, Jory.

1 letter (TLS). Briefly passes critical judgment on Jeffers, Patchen, Pound, Aiken, Auden, William Carlos Williams, and Cummings as poets. Encourages Sherman to keep at it despite rejections because he is a fine poet., 1 Apr. [1960]

1 letter (TLS). Concerns Bukowski's physical condition and events in Sherman's literary life., 28 June [1960?]

1 letter (TLS). Suggests ways to manage submissions and attacks a writer named Wang., 5 July 1960

1 letter (TLS). On events in the literary world that Bukowski shares with Sherman., 9 July 1960

1 letter (TLS). On numerous events in his own literary life., [10] Aug. 1960]

1 letter (TLS). Describes a night of lonely drinking in place after place on his fortieth birthday. Characterizes Sheri Martinelli as primarily a woman who protects women. Says he is Hank when people talk to him, Charles when he writes., 17 Aug. 1960

1 letter (TLS). Indicates that nearly everything is going wrong., 19 Aug. [1960]

1 letter (TLS). Announces new publications. Says he prefers to single space poems despite the "rules.", [Summer or Fall 1960]

1 letter (TLS). Lists rejections, tentative acceptances, and criticizes how the little magazines respond to submissions., [1961]

1 letter (TLS). Describes going into a rage while drunk at a girlfriend's house. Says there is no compromising for a writer as there had been none for Pound. With ballpoint pen drawing of the devil., [1961?]

1 letter (TLS). On women and going to the horse races., No date

1 letter (TLS). Recognizes that his poems have been rejected recently because they are poor. Ones rejected by Origin are "terrible.", No date

1 letter (TLS). Goes into sex in writing and how he thinks poems need less "poesy footwork" in them, which he senses in even "the immortal poems.", No date. 1 letter (TLS)

1 letter (TLS). Describes a series of rejections and his disenchantment with life in general., No date

1 letter (TLS). Says he has not been writing much. No acceptance or rejections., No date

Stangos, Nikos

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy, with pencil and pen annotations]., 2 Oct. 1967

1 letter (TLS) [photocopy, with ink signature]. Note typed on the first page of a two-page poem, "The Nature of the Threat and What to Do," which Bukowski wrote that night., [late 1967]

Wantling, Ruth

1 letter (ALS). Complains of the heat and describes a night at work pretending he had the power to order the death of each person he chose. "Nobody got by.", 10 Aug. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Long letter on the phoniness that reaches into most of"Merican" life., 11 Sept. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Tells a story about getting drunk in Philadelphia and almost freezing to death face down in the snow., 25 Nov. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Letter offering his opinion of a twenty-eight year-old man and fifteen year-old girl living together. Describes what he feels when he sees youth on a campus. Mentions the art he has been doing., 27 June 1966

1 letter (ALS). Points to difference between himself and Kenneth Patchen, with whom Wantling had compared Bukowski., No date

Wantling, William

1 letter (TLS). Has received signed copy of Wantling's Down, Off, and Out. Says he likes the idea of being in an asylum watching birds in the sun., 15 June 1965

1 letter (TLS). Says he has written few poems since Crucifix in a Deathhand came out a month ago. Announces that he will soon be forty-five., 23 June 1965

1 letter (TLS). Adds up the total he has made on poetry to $80 over the ten years he has been writing it. Will receive 10 cents per copy for Crucifix., 9 July 1965

1 letter (TLS). Describes all the sounds, movements, distractions of the woman living with him and how they affect him as he writes: "I'm a dreamer, I can't take much, I like closed doors.", July 1965

1 letter (TLS). Says Henry Miller "went ape" over Crucifix. Goes into why he dislikes intellectuals, poetry groups, etc., July 1965

1 letter (TLS). On feeling crowded by the child and woman who live with him., early Aug. 1965

1 letter (TLS). On how much he depends on his writing. Mentions doing drawings for Border Press., 12 Aug. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Attributed his crazy behavior to external things., 1 Sept. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Long letter on Wantling's activities, especially his drug consumption., 11 Sept. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Lists his forthcoming publications and adds that if he wrote better he would get paid for it., 30 Sept. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Criticizes some of Wantling's lines of poetry then complains about Wantling making him "be cruel.", Sept. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Praises Dostoevsky. Describes the women he has ended up with and how the younger, prettier ones have required too much falseness and money., [early] Oct. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Offers a revision of a Wantling poem. Describes an operation on his foot to remove glass that had been there for four or five months., 18 Oct. 1965

1 letter (TLS). A long letter on the forces against him and how he must take things as they come., 30 Oct. 1965

1 letter (TLS). A list of sayings by Bukowski. Ends with social criticism aimed at the U.S.., 11 Nov. 1965

1 letter (TLS). On bringing desires into the open. Defines the "Great War" as that of the "Living vs. the Dead.", 29 Nov. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Criticizes social injustices. Expresses his disgust with himself., 31 Dec. 1965

1 letter (TLS). Compares the poets of the 1950s and 1960s outside the academies with the "university boys who are merely soft and tricky.", 28 Jan. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Note on his physical ills that keep him from his job, 23 Feb. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Goes into detail about the treatment his doctor gives him for hemorrhoids., 9 Mar. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Sympathizes with Wantling, who has been arrested for possession of drugs. Says he has been writing a lot of poems., 18 Apr. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Wishes Wantling luck in staying out of jail., Apr. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Note on his heavy drinking of late. Announces his nomination for the Pulitzer Prize., 12 June 1966

1 letter (TLS). Describes his physical condition as improving since illness has kept him from work. Includes a note to Ruth Wantling., 20 June 1966

1 letter (TLS). Recommends Artaud. Complains of surgery done recently., 1 July 1966

1 letter (TLS). Says he is experiencing dizziness and pain, and now that he is weak people are requesting poems., 6 Aug. 1966

1 letter (ALS). A theoretical letter on how to work things in one's favor to stay alive., 21 Aug. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Congratulates Wantling on his writing published in Notes from the Underground. Says he is drying up as a letter writer., mid Sept. 1966

1 letter (TLS). On a number of matters, both literary and nonliterary, in his and Wantling's life. Says he has started a novel. [This letter is addressed to Ruth and Bill, but written to William Wantling]., 11 Dec. 1966

1 letter (TLS). Vaguely refers to "pull [ing] thru a kind of 2 bit crisis.", 1966

1 letter (TLS). Says he has written six or seven chapters of a novel called "The Way the Dead Love," which he has used to apply for a grant. Says he hasn't written a poem in three or four months., 31 July 1967

1 letter (TLS). Criticizes a poem Wantling sent him. Says he will sell the few copies of Crucifix that he has for $5 each., 13 July [196?]

1 letter (TLS). On how life does not make sense and is filled with too many lies., Sept. [196?]

1 letter (TLS). Long letter on how nearly everyone bothers him in one way or another, and how he doesn't have what he wants though he isn't sure what it is., No date

Webb, Jon and Louise

1 letter (TLS). Concerns the production of It Catches My Heart in Its Hands, which the Webbs are about to bring out. With ballpoint ink drawing of jockey and horse., 5 Nov. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Praises what he has seen of the book and says he anxiously awaits the finished product., 15 Nov. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Lavish praise and gratitude for the book, which he has just received. Mounted on board. [photocopy] (original in oversize box 34)., 23 Nov. 1963

1 letter (TLS). Mentions something he said to John William Corrington that may have angered him. Ferlinghetti's name is mentioned in connection with a future book., 16 Jan. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Says that he would rather have the Webbs then Ferlinghetti do his next book., [21 Jan. 1964]

1 letter (TLS). Note to say he has mailed a "3 hour tape.", 23 Jan. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Thanks the Webbs for an inscribed book from their press. Describes a dream about a whore filling wine glasses with beer and not drinking from them., 27 Jan. 1964

1 letter (ALS). A complaint [apparently sent in a letter to the Webbs] that was written by Bukowski to the woman beneath him who knocks on his ceiling when he types, along with her response., 28 Jan. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Comments, "We are moving up a bit, Loujon Press and Buk," because of favorable responses to the book. More complaints about the woman downstairs who knocks on her ceiling., [30 Jan. 1964]

1 letter (TLS)., 5 Feb. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Note on an enclosed letter for Bob Fink. Notes that he "stole 2 excerpts" from Ben Tibbs "for purples" [i.e. signing the purple pages of It Catches]., 7 Feb. [1964]

1 letter (TLS). Thanks the Webbs for a valentine. Says he has finished a side of a tape ("conversation") and will send it to them when it comes., 14 Feb. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Says he will read the poems in It Catches on the tape. Describes his pleasure in Al Purdy's Poems for All the Annetts. Mentions Purdy's review of It Catches., 27 Feb. 1964

1 letter (TLS)., 1 Mar. 1964

1 letter (TLS)., 2 Mar. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Complains of the horrors of having to move into a "rotten hole." Comments on Michigan's Voices "Love-Sex Issue" and how writers are usually presumptuous on the subject. With abstract color drawing., 14 Mar. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Short note on an enclosed poem and his reservations about it. With abstract color drawing., Mar. 1964

1 letter (TLS). Affectionate letter discussing poetry, various authors and magazines. Decorated with yellow marker., June 1965

Weissner, Carl

1 letter (TLS). Tells Weissner that he was born in Andernach, Germany, and was brought to the U.S. when he was two. Describes his life and the life of a few literary friends. With ballpoint ink drawings., 19 Aug. 1966

1 letter (TLS)., early Oct. 1966

1 letter (TLS)., 2 Nov. 1966

1 letter (TLS). One long paragraph taking up almost anything that comes to mind., 27 Dec. 1966

1 letter (TLS)., 27 Jan. 1967

1 letter (TLS). Offers a blurb for Weissner's magazine KLACTO. Bemoans the dismal proceedings in his life. With several ballpoint ink drawings., 3 Mar. 1967

1 letter (TLS)., 24 Mar. 1967

1 card (TCS). Wants to know if Weissner received the tape, and says again that he has a new concept for a musical reading., 15 Apr. 1967

1 letter (TLS). On his long experience of being singled out for punishment as a child without knowing why. Also describes how he paints with watercolors directly from the tube. With ballpoint ink drawing., 28 Apr. [1967]

1 letter (TLS)., 13 May 1967

1 letter (TLS)., [late] June 1967

1 letter (TLS). Describes his stay at the University of Arizona and then his "terrible" life back home in L.A. Emphasizes how tired he feels, tired of things and physically tired., 7 July 1967

1 letter (TLS). A note saying he mailed two copies of Crucifix to Weissner. With ink drawing., 16 July 1967

1 letter (TLS). Invites Weissner, who has received a Fulbright and will be in New York, to come to L.A. Hasn't written a poem in four or five months. Describes a woman outside watering the lawn, whom he considers "insane.", 8 Aug. 1967

1 letter (TLS)., 26 Sept. 1967

1 letter (TLS). Mentions a money order of $7.50 sent for a tape [KLACTO/23 monaural tape recording]. Finds playing games with his daughter amusing., 29 Sept. 1967

1 letter (TLS)., late Sept. or early Oct. 1967

1 card (TCS). Note saying he hasn't heard from Weissner after writing to both addresses [in New York]., 17 Oct. [1967]

1 card (TCS). Gives Steve Richmond's address to Weissner in case he wants the tape of Bukowski and Richmond reading. Mentions the Black Sparrow tape of him reading., [Apr. 1968]

1 letter (TLS)., [early] May 1968

1 letter (TLS)., May 1968

1 card (TCS). Acknowledges receiving two copies of KLACTO [23]. Has finished 20 paintings for Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window and 25 for At Terror Street., [May 1968?]

[Wolberg, Joe]

Miscellany

1 letter (TLS) to Jay [?], apologizes for remarks about Jay's novel and damns Robert Creeley., May [early 1960s?]

1 letter (TLS) to D[avid]. Antin, thanking him for copy of some/thing. With several drawings., 16 Jan. 1965

1 letter (TLS) to James and Gray [?], criticizing their publication for trying too hard to be avant garde and modern. Covered with drawings in India ink and colored chalk., Dec. 1965

1 letter (TLS) to Ev [?], a poem of New Years' greeting. Covered with drawing of mounted jockey, in India ink and colored chalk., Dec. 1965

1 letter (ALS). Requesting proper photo credit. With drawing., 7 Apr. 1976

"about a phone call" - 1 leaf

"ABOUT MY VERY TORTURED FRIEND, PETER:" - 3 leaves, with drawing ( Wormwood Review)

"AN ACTION AFTERNOON" - 2 leaves ( KLACTO)

"the adding machine" - 2 versions, each 1 leaf

"Adolph" - 2 leaves

"Advice" - 1 leaf

"ADVICE FOR SOME YOUNG MAN IN THE YEAR 2064 A.D. :" - 1 leaf ( Epos)

"advice for those almost unarmed against the constant meloncholy:" - 1 leaf

"Africa, Paris, Greece" - 2 leaves

"AFTER RECEIVING A CONTRIBUTOR'S COPY OF NOTHING AFTER A 3-YEAR WAIT" - 3 leaves ( Targets)

"AFTER THE PARTY" - 1 leaf

"age" - 1 leaf ( Ole', 1964)

"AH"

"ah, ###ah, ah"

"all"

"ALL ABOUT"

"ALL GOD'S CHILDREN GOT TROUBLES"

"all right"

"all right then/ you mean to say/ that your proper sayings/ makes buildings out of/ men?" (first stanza)

"all the luck"

"ALL THE SACRED CHRISTS THAT NEVER ARRIVE"

"ALL THE WHITE RATS"

"all you need to get by-"

"the amazing eccentricity of the sidewalk"

"...american express, Athens, Greece"

"AND EVEN THO SHE GAVE ME A HARD-ON"

"AND NOW I SIT IN A SMALL PAPER PLACE"

"AND SO WE GOT OUR WAY"

"AND THE MOUSE KNOWS AND THE WINDOWPANE AND THE CHAIR"

"AND THE RENT'S HIGH TOO"

"and when love came to us twice" (first line)

"THE ANGEL WHO PUSHED HIS WHEELCHAIR - "

"THE ANGELS OF SUNDAY"

"THE ANGELS SAY KEEP GOING"

"Another Academy"

"another knock on the door"

"Another Love Poem (For Nina)" (two versions)

"another of my critics"

"another one of my ###critics"

"THE ANSWER"

"ANSWER TO A NOTE FOUND IN THE MAILBOX"

"ANSWER TO A NOTE ON THE DRESSER:"

"AN ANSWER TO AN ARTICLE UPON MY DECADENCE AND DEPRAVITY"

"ANSWER TO SOME SACRAMENTO LETTERS:"

"the ants"

"ANYTHING: SAY: A BANDAGE ON THE MUSKET OF A GUN IN THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF A MAN IN A HOUSE, A HOUSE ON A HILL, A HILL IN THE SUN -" (two versions)

"An Apology For Songs of Death"

"the apple" (two versions)

"APPLE PIE"

"The Apprentices"

"THE ARCADE ROOM"

"AN ARGUMENT OVER MARSHAL FOCH"

"ART CLASS"

"Artaud" (two versions)

"artistic selfishness, yes, I have it-"

"AS THE HOTELS/ FALL UPON/ OUR HEADS/ & THE LAST/ CHILD DIES/ THEN WE'LL KNOW/ IT'S APRIL," (holographic poem)

"As the Sparrow"

"ASSAULT"

"ATD FOR YOU AND WE" (two versions)

"atomic warfare is wilder than tonight but it's still motherfuck"

"August"

"the automobiles of Delongpre"

"Autumn Morning"

"THE AVOIDANCE OF BOREDOM"

"Ax and Blade" (two versions)

"B.W."

"BABY NEEDS A NEW CASTLE IN SWITZERLAND"

"BAD NIGHT"

"A BAD NIGHT-BLAME THE BOURBON"

"a bad ride and a German bar"

"Balance Sheet, May 17, 1974:" (two versions)

"balling" (two versions)

"bar" ("I suck in and out of a cigarette while thinking . . ." [first line])

"bar" ("standing outside a bar" [first line])

"BAYONETS IN CANDLELIGHT"

"BEAKS WITHOUT ICECREAM"

"the beast"

"a beautiful day"

"THE BEAUTIFUL LADY"

"BEE"

"beef tongue...for J.T."

"BEEFRICE"

"BEER AND CIGARS"

"Bee's 5th."

"Behan, Bruce and What-Not..."

"the bells"

"THE BELLS OF THE CONDOM"

"belly"

"bet too early in the 9th. and was sent weeping down the escalator and into the parking lot-"

"the big bulls in the pisspot"

"The Big Fire"

"big grey balloon things, heavy" (plus one photostat)

"THE BIGGEST BREASTS"

"birds"

"birth:

"BISTRO SCENE, OR: SKID ROW: HOLLYWOOD"

"A BIT OF LIGHT FOR THE TOAD:"

"THE BITCHING MACHINEGUNNER"

"The Black Poets" (two versions)

"black sun"

"THE BLONDES IN BLUE DRESSES"

"blood"

"blue cheese and chili peppers"

"the blue head of death"

"bluechip stamps" (two versions)

"blues song"

"a blurb"

"boil near left elbow

"the bombing of Berlin" (plus one photostat)

"THE BONES OF MY UNCLE"

"books"

"bord gomme"

"A BOTTOMLESS JOINT ON SUNSET NEAR WESTERN"

"the boy in red for a 20"

"the brainless eyes"

"Brando"

"BREAD"

"BREAKTHROUGH"

"THE BROOM HANDLE" (two versions)

"BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL"

"BUFFALO BILL"

"bullshit pain"

"the bum's at Phillipe's"

"burn and burn and burn and burn"

"BURNED"

"BURNING"

"burning in water, drowning in flame"

"the butcher"

"BUTTERFLIES"

"CALIFORNIA HERE I COME" (two versions)

"cancer of the eyeball" (first line)

"candlewax"

"can't you see me where I'm at now? (weeper) (,me):" (two versions)

"Captain Jim" (two versions)

"carnival:"

"THE CATCH"

"celebration enough"

"CEMENT MAN ON CEMENT HORSE"

"a change of habit"

"CHARISMA"

"Charles" (two versions)

"CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS - 10$"

"the chicken"

"chilled green" (also a postcard of "chilled green" published by Alternative Press)

"christ" (plus one photostat)

"Christmas Eve, alone (1973)" (two versions)

"a class broad"

"climax"

"Clint Wescott"

"THE CLOSING OF THE TOPLESS AND BOTTOMLESS BARS" (two versions)

"cloud 9"

"coffee and babies"

"cold plums"

"the colored birds"

` "colors"

"THE COMEDY HOUR" (two versions)

"Communion:"

"COMMUNISTS"

"concrete"

"the conditions"

"the confusion of the gently-damned is the best song going on everybody's hit parade:"

"contributor's clumn:"

"cooperation"

"a cop-out to a possible immortality:"

"THE COPULATION BLUES"

"A CORRECTION TO A LADY OF POESEY:"

"coughs" (two versions)

"COUNTERPOINT"

" countryside"

"courage"

"the courage is the sun"

"crack-up"

"crazy man, another one-"

"the creation of the morning line" (two versions)

"crickets"

"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT"

"a critic"

"CROCODILE"

"d.n.f." (plus one photostat)

"damn dog, buddy," (first line)

"DAYLIGHT SAVING"

"dear Charles-" (two versions)

"dear friend" ("I wish to thank you for the photo of . . ." [first line])

"DEAR FRIEND" (this/ is what happens when the/ drink and the life . . ." [first line]) (two versions)

"death" ("death is a man standing . . ." [first line])

"death" ("look, he said, you got spider traps all along this wall," [first line])

"DEATH AND DOSTOEVSKY"

"death and white glue"

"the death of an idiot"

"a declaration of independence"

"definitions"

"the delicacy of our submarine souls is . . ." (first line)

"demise"

"devout fellow"

"did you ever think about that?"

"dig me a ditch"

"dirdge"

"DIRECTIONS"

"DIRECTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS AND SIGNS TO THE INDOLENT, THE BORED AND THE INSUFFICIENT"

"DIRT"

"a dirty joke"

"discursive as muttering does in a banishee twilight the hounds come home to eat the master..." (first stanza)

"A DIVISION"

"dogfight"

"THE DOGS"

"THE DOGS BARK KNIVES"

"$$$$$$" ("I've always had trouble with/ money" [first line] missing page 3)

"$$$$$" ("of course/ the unfortunate thing is/ there isn't anything experimental about living" [first stanza])

"dooby do do do"

"DOW JONES: DOWN"

"DOW LOVE DOWN"

"down by the sea, the beautiful sea"

"down by the wings"

"down like stairways, up like smoke-"

"DOWN ON THE ROW"

"down the silver river with one shoe off"

"DOWN THRU THE MARCHING"

"A DRAWER OF FISH"

"DRAWING OF A BAND CONCERT ON A MATCHBOX:" (2 versions)

"dreamlessly"

"the drill"

"drinking"

"driveway"

"drooling madness at St. Liz:"

"THE DROWNING"

"DRUNK AND LISTENING TO SOME ENGLISH MARCHES ON THE RADIO WHILE FAR AWAY FROM YOU:"

"drunk ol' bukowski drunk"

"the drunk tank judge"

"the dwarf" (two versions)

"the earthquake"

"Eddie and Eve" (two versions, earlier version missing page 1)

"The Editor of the Sheets"

"the egg" (two versions)

"the 8 count"

"18 CARS FULL OF MEN THINKING OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN"

"I8,000 to one"

"the elephants"

"Eleven"

"THE END" (also a second poem, "tonight")

"the end of nothing"

"The end of the funhouse"

"entirely hesitant" (first line)

"ESCAPE"

"the escape"

"everything:"

"evol"

"EXISTENCE"

"the experts"

"extant"

"FACE OF A POLITICAL CANDIDATE ON A STREET BILL BOARD"

"the faces are gnawing at my walls but have not yet come in..."

"fact"

"fag, fag, fag"

"a fair evening"

"FAIR STAND THE FIELDS OF FRANCE AND NEGATION"

"fast track" (two versions)

"FAX:"

"feed time"

"feelings" (two versions)

"the feelings of the creature within the shoe"

"FEMALE AND BREAKDOWN AND PEACE"

"fetish"

"A $15 Boy and A $1500 Coffin"

"55 Beds in the Same Direction"

"THE FIGHT"

"A FINE DAY AND THE WORLD LOOKS GOOD"

"finger"

"FINISH" ("the hearse comes through the room filled with/ the beheaded, the disappeared, the living/ mad." [first three lines])

"finish" ("it's all over, she says," [first line])

"fire"

"FIRE STATION (For Jane B., with love.)" (two versions)

"THE FIRST LOVE" (plus one photostat)

"5 Dollars"

"$5.95"

"5 men in black passing my window"

"flashing white teeth"

"fleas in my brain"

"flies"

"THE FLOWER LOVER"

"the flu"

"fly song"

"food"

"a fool in Greenwich Village"

" footnote upon the construction of the masses:"

"for Jane"

"FOR MANY OF THOSE WHO THINK THEY QUIETLY KNOW WHILE TUGGING AT THEIR NEATLY*TRIMMED HALF-BEARDS:"

"FOR ONE I KNEW"

"for those 3"

"FOR THOSE WHO PUT THEMSELVES UPON ME"

"40 Cigarettes"

"46 and 9/I0's"

"40,000 flies"

"4 blocks" (plus one photostat)

"4 on 6"

"4:30 A.M."

"the 4th. of July holiday"

"FRAGILE!!"

"free"

"a free 25 page booklet"

"freedom"

" French's; nt wt 8 ounces" (two versions)

"FROM THE DEPT. OF ENGLISH"

"fuck" ("fuck the censors" [first line]) (two versions)

"fuck" ("she pulled her dress off' [first line]) (incomplete)

"THE FULFILLMENT"

"game"

"the game"

"game-players"

"the garbageman"

"garden'

"Genet and Jones; an evaluation From Underground"

"get the nose"

"getting your dime's worth out of a newspaper"

"the gigolo" (two versions)

"girl in a miniskirt reading the Bible outside my window"

"THE GIRL outside of Strawberry Patch # One"

"the girl outside the supermarket"

"the glass fly"

"GLORY TIME: TAKE A BATH + GET THE FLIES OFF."

"GOD"

"god I got the sad blue blues this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?" (first stanza)

"the golfers"

"THE GOOD LIFE AT O'HARE AIRPORT"

"GOOD MORNING"

"good night, sweet jello leaves" (two versions)

"good things happen too..." (two versions)

"a good way to run through the swinging door when you don't believe in running"

"Goodyear"

"GRADITUDE"

"GRAMMAR OF LIFE"

"THE GRAND LIFE OF THE DEAD"

"THE GRAND PRICKS OF THE HOB-NAILED SUN" (two versions)

"grandfather's trick"

"a great man speaks of great men"

"THE GREAT ONE:"

"the great poet"

"The great writer in bed" (first line)

"guru"

"the guy in the front court"

"H-Bomb"

"ha ha ha ha ha , ha ha"

"HAMMER AND LEASH"

"the happy life of the tired" (two versions)

"Happy New Year"

"A HARD KNOCKER"

"the hatred for Hemingway"

"HAVE YOU EVER KISSED A PANTHER?"

"HAVE YOU EVER PULLED A LION'S TAIL"

"he knows us all"

"HE LAYED IT UP THERE INTO THE AIR"

"he learned it from Gertie"

"he wrote in lonely blood"

"the heart's riot" (two versions)

"Hell Hath No Fury . . ."

"help wanted"

"here"

"A HEROE'S DEATH" (two versions)

"Hey, Dolly..." (three versions)

"High-Rise"

"THE HIGH-RISE OF THE NEW WORLD"

"the hippies and the killer'

"his wife knew Carl Sandburg" (two versions)

"HIS WIFE, THE PAINTER"

"HITLER"

"hitler's mama"

"hogs in the sky"

"The Hollywood Hustle"

"holy communion"

"HOLY ENOUGH UNDER PLASTIC CEILINGS" (two versions)

"Honor Thy Father and Thy..."

"HOOKED"

"HOOKED ON HORSE"

"the hookers, the madmen and the doomed"

"horse"

"HORSESHIT"

"hot" ("I was up under the attic and it was almost summer" [first line])

"hot" ("she was hot, she was so hot" [first line])

"A HOT DAY IN LOS ANGELES"

"hot month" (two versions)

"A HOT TIP ON THE FUTURE"

"The Hours"

"how good sleep is before having to walk down any street--"

"The Human Inhuman"

"the hunt"

"THE HUNTED"

"I am a selfish man"

"I AM EATEN BY THE BUTTERFLIES"

"I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING"

"I CAN'T STAY IN THE SAME ROOM WITH THAT WOMAN FOR FIVE MINUTES"

"I cause some remarkable creativity"

"I didn't know what time it was until I met you"

"I do not need a guitar"

"I don't give a damn"

"I drove on down there and walked into the hospital, up to his/ bed" (first line)

"I get all the latest hit tunes free"

"I have hope" (first line)

"I HAVE TAKEN THE PLACE OF THE STARVING ARTIST I USED TO BE"

"I KNEW WHAT THE TIGERS SAID"

"I like to look up at the ceiling for designs in the cracks"

"I live in a neighborhood of murder"

"I love You"

"I meet a vegetarian"

"I met this woman"

"I now hear an airplane overhead," (first lines)

"I PISS UPON THE WORKS OF MEN"

"I SAW AN OLD FASHIONED WHORE TODAY"

"I SLEPT WITH ANGELA DAVIS LAST NIGHT" (two versions)

"I Think of the Little Men . . ."

"I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO GET SOME" (two versions)

"I THOUGHT OF SHIPS, OF ARMIES, HANGING ON..."

"I was clean anyhow, I think" (plus one photostat)

"I was glad"

"Ice"

"ice for the eagles"

"the icecream people"

"If I were Norman Mailer I'd die too"

"IF YOU SHOULD QUESTION THIS PLEASE REQUEST AN EXPLANATION FROM...IF YOU THEN BELIEVE YOU HAVE BEEN..."

" IGNIS FATUUS"

"I'll send you a postcard"

"I'M IN LOVE"

"I'm serious..." (first line)

"IMAGINATION IS A TERRIBLE THING"

"IMBECLIE NIGHT"

"IMMENSITY"

"THE IMMORTAL BOMBS, THE STINKING FEET OF GOD, BE QUIET"

"IMPERFECTION SAYS GRACE"

"In a Lady's Bedroom" (two versions)

"in bed until noon with the poets"

"IN MEMORY OF THE SECOND LEADING JOCKEY AT SANTA ANITA:"

"in the name of love and art"

"in the sun and in the rain and in the day and in the night"

"In This Place We Eat Apples And Cut Our Fingers On Beercans"

"IN THIS WHIRLING POT OF PISS SOME SONGS ARE BORN"

"THE INDIAN AND THE OLD MAN WITH THE DANGLING CIGARETTE" (two versions)

"INFORMATION UPON AN EMPIRE OF COINS"

"THE INQUISITOR"

"INSOMNIA" ("have you ever been in a room" [first line])

"insomnia" ("my aunt Sally from Boston" [first line])

"interviews"

"inverted love song"

"the invincible country of balloon faces"

"It Beats Love Because They're Aren't Any Wounds Flopping About-"

"it comes from somewhere"

"IT TAKES LESS THAN A GUN TO KILL A WOMAN"

"It will come on padded feet carrying roses, wine and the yellow pages in its mouth:"

"IT'S ALL IN THE BURING"

"it's an UNDERWOOD, I see now..."

"it's difficult to be a god when bannanas eat monkeys

"ITS EVEN IN THE RAIN IN THE WET IN THE SMALLEST DROP IN THE SHADE IN THE DIAMOND SKY-"

"it's killed" (first line)

"it's not going to hurt"

"IVAN THE TERRIBLE"

"joe"

"just another L.A. poem-"

"the justice of the blood"

"kaakaa & other immolations" (two versions)

"keroac dead at 47"

"the kid from Santiago"

"A KILLER GETS READY'

"the killers"

"a kind of argument"

"kiss me"

"The Kiss-off"

"THE KNIFEIGHTER"

"The Knifer"

"the ladies of summer" (two versions)

"The Ladies of the Afternoon"

"the ladies still don't care" (two versions)

"the lady executives"

"THE LADY WITH THE LEGS"

"THE LAMPS OF LAUGHTER"

"last act"

"THE LAST DAYS OF THE SUICIDE-KID" (two versions)

"THE LAST POETRY READING"

"A LAST SHOT ON TWO GOOD HORSES"

"Laugh literary"

"LAUGHING POOLTABLES" (two versions)

"laundry"

"LAW"

"leaning on the wood"

"left with the dog" (two versions)

"THE LESBIAN (dedicated to all of them)"

"let's be original"

"LETTER TO A SMALL AND KINDLY PRINCESS"

"the letters" (two versions)

"Liberated" (two versions)

"A LIBERATED WOMAN"

"THE LIE" (two versions)

"life of the king"

"LIFEDANCE"

"LIFTING WEIGHTS AT 2 A.M. IN THE MORNING" (three versions)

"LIKE A FLYSWATTER"

"like a movie"

"like a sideways under the crisscross"

"like that"

"THE LITERARY LIFE"

"A LITTLE ATOMIC BOMB"

"a little bit of EXCITEMENT" (two versions)

"little poem"

"the loner" ("16 and 1/2 inch neck/ 68 years old, lifted weights" [first lines])

"the loner" ("staring at a lightbulb, unshaded, {first line])

"looking at the cat's balls"

"looking for a job" (two versions)

"looking for Jack Michelene"

"loosely loosely"

"lord"

"los angeles women"

"lost"

"Louis-Ferdinand Destouches"

"love" ("he used to come and see my girl" [first line])

"LOVE" ("he was a midget" [first line])

"love" ("love, he said, gas" [first line])

"love" ("the poems are coming/ like bloody little guys busting" [first lines]) (two versions)

"love" ("Sally was a sloppy/ leaver." [first lines])

"LOVE IS A FORM OF SELFISHNESS:"

"love is Judy Garland trying to kill herself;/ love is Judy Garland dead;/ love is bombers over Santa Monica--"

"A LOVE POEM FOR ALL THE WOMEN I HAVE KNOWN"

"LOVE POEM TO MARINA" (two versions /one photostat)

"lovlie"

"the mad poet"

"THE MADAMEOISSLE FROM ARMITERES"

"MADNESS"

"THE MADNESS OF THE WINDOWS"

"main event"

"the majesty of our imperfectness/ is almost like a snail crawling the/ side of a house;" (first lines)

"MAN AND WOMAN IN BED AT 10 P.M."

"A MAN GETS TIRED"

"man in bed"

"THE MAN SHE SAW AT THE RACETRACK'

"Mankinde"

"A MAN'S WOMAN"

"a marijuana poem"

"Marina:"

"Martin Luther King, Jr. Never Went to My Poland Like Cornell Wilde Pretending to be Chopin, the Friend of Lizst"

"material"

"MAYBE TOMORROW'

"me"

"me and my doc" (three versions)

"Measurements from the creation coffin:"

"MEATBALL"

"memory"

"men sleep in alleys. Notre Dame burns.

"MEN'S CRAPPER" (two versions)

"MERRY CHRISTMAS"

"the midnight dip"

"MINE"

"the mini-skirt life" (two versions)

"mirror mirror on the wall'' (two versions)

"the misfit"

"Miss Lazarus in the Nude"

"THE MOCKINGBIRD" (two versions)

"the moment of truth" (two versions)

"MONGOLIAN COASTS SHINING IN LIGHT"

"mood and counter-mood" (two versions)

"Moonlight Ride"

"moons of honey drown the lark hahaha"

"MORE AGRUMENT, MORE VAN GOGH, MORE GRIEG" (two versions)

"A Most Dark Night in April"

"MOTHER"

"Moths"

"moved out Saturday night" (first line)

"the movie" ("I am laying on the bed/ and her kid walks in," [first lines])

"MOVIE" ("you've seen my tart" [first line])

"Mud love"

"murder"

"the music man" (two versions)

"my afternoons into night"

"my barber" (two versions)

"my beard is getting white"

"My Brother, Ernest Hemingway:"

"my comrades"

"MY DEATH"

"my doom has wire wheels and girls in light green tight green dresses smile at me-"

"MY EYES SLEEP"

"MY FAITHFUL INDIAN SERVANT" (photostat)

"MY FATHER WAS"

"my father's big-time fling" (plus one photostat)

"MY FRIEND WILLIAM" (two versions)

"my friends down at the corner:"

"MY GOD, MY MOTHER, MOST HOLY THING: SHAKEN AND AWAKEN THE DRUNKEN HELL OF MYSELF AND SAVE ME!"

"my hell"

"my landlady"

"my landlady and my landlord"

"my new parents"

"My ol' drinking buddies..."

"my special insanity"

"MY TIMECARD IS ONE HALF A TYPEWRITER IN THE CITY OF BURBANK"

"my toilet"

"A NATION OF ANTS AND FLEAS AND GNATS AND DABS OF THINGS. . ."

"THE NATURE OF THE THREAT AND WHAT TO DO"

"a need for glue"

"negative" (two versions)

"nerves"

"NEW MEXICO"

"the new one"

"THE NEW PLACE" ("I type at a window that faces the street" [first line])

"the new place" ("the manager wears all white" [first line"]) (incomplete)

"NEW YORK AS I REMEMBER? AND I GUESS IT HASN'T CHANGED"

"A NICE PLACE"

"NIGHT ANIMAL"

"The Night I Killed Tommy" (two versions)

"the night I was going to die" (two versions)

"A NIGHT OF MOZART"

"THE NIGHT THEY TOOK WHITEY"

"9 TRASHCANS"

"THE 1930's..."

"1926 Dodge, Tijuana"

"99 degrees"

"99 to one" (two versions)

"no bra, no panties..."

"No Cagney, me"

"No HOLE IN THE SKY"

"no more of these young men..."

"no title" ("the churning maggot escapes" [first line]) (two versions)

"NO TITLE" ("WHEN BALZAC SAID,/ "GET YOURSELF A 50 YEAR/ OLD WOMAN," [first lines])

"NO TITLE AT ALL..."

"nobody home"

"NOT QUITE SO SOON"

"not too bad"

"Notations on my Splendid Sorrow"

"Notations Upon the Universal Eyebrow:"

"Notes on a Bluebird Flying Past My Window:"

"notes on a door-knocker"

"NOTES UPON READING THE C.S. MONITOR." (two versions)

"NOTES UPON THE FLAXON ASPECT:"

"notes upon the tigress"

" 'nother dead..."

"NOTHING FOR A TITLE"

"NOTICE"

"now/ there are still monoplanes" (first lines)

"now she hates me" (plus one photostat)

"now you know it's difficult and that's why we kiss walls"

"the nude dancer"

"O, WE ARE THE OUTCASTS, O WE BURN IN WONDEROUS FLAME!

"OAK TREE, OCT. 5, 1971"

"Octipus"

"od G. death twist." (first line)

"OFFICER'S CLUB, A.P.O.: (FOR M.K. AND J.B.)"

"OH"

"oh my god, I love everything so much it makes me vomit"

"old age"

"an old fan"

"AN OLD-FASHIONED POEM ON A TIMELESS SUBJECT:" (two versions)

"THE OLD MAN ON THE CORNER"

": : : The Old Movies"

"The Old Woman"

"ON A GRANT"

"on Creeley"

"ON CRUSTS AND SUCH"

"ON LIGHTING A CIGAR:"

"On Reading at U.S.C., April 23rd., 1971"

"on the circuit"

"on the sidewalks and in the sun"

"ON THE TRAIN TO DEL MAR'

"ON THE WAGON"

"ONCE, JUST ONCE IN THIS DREAM ABOUT SPAIN I SAW A MAN STANDING IN THE DOORWAY..."

"I/5"

"One for Blaise Cendrars..."

" One for Ging, With Klux Top"

"ONE FOR THE OLD MAN"

"one hundred dollars"

"$100" (two versions)

"$180 out'

"ONE HUNDRED AND NINETYNINE POUNDS OF CLAY LEANING FORWARD" (two versions)

"ONE HUNDRED AND NINETYSEVEN DEGREES'

"ONE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS== HANGING-ON THE CROSS"

"one more farewell"

"one more player gone" (plus one photostat)

"ONE MORE TIME"

"one night stands'

"ONE WITH DANTE"

"THE ONES WHO COULDN'T MISS'

"only the truly lost"

"OPEN ALL NIGHT"

"the ordinary café of the world"

"the original'

"OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN-"

"our song"

"our tiny little cross"

"THE OUT"

"OUT BEHIND HARVEY'S:" (two versions)

"Out of the Arms"

"over a beer"

"overtime"

"the Pact"

"pain" ("listen, I told him, throwing my 14th beer can" [first line])

"pain" ("pain covers me like a skin" [first line])

"pain is the joy of knowing/ the unkindest truths/ that arrive without/ searching" (first stanza)

"the painter"

"palm leaves"

"panties"

"paper clips"

"THE PAPER ON THE FLOOR"

"A PARTY HERE-MACHINEGUNS, TANKS, AN ARMY FIGHTING AGAINST MEN ON ROOFTOPS"

"THE PAYOFF"

"PEACE"

"people"

"the people"

"people as flowers"

"the people, no"

"PERVERTED POEM-ESSAY OF A MAN SLIDING INTO A UN-NIGGARDLY BARREL OF EXCRETIA AND ASOLOTL"

"Peterglass Pecker the Size of Mars in Screaming against Cobwebs-"

"phone call from my 5 year old daughter in Garden Grove"

"photo"

"photo of a gazzly drinking water and then walking off down Broadway:"

"pick-up"

"pieces of paper"

"The Pigeon"

"Pious as the Arrow, Straight on Through"

"piss" ("it is terrible to be a genius" [first line])

"piss" ("we're laying on the bed together" [first line])

"piss and shit"

"pizza" (two versions)

"PLANTS WHICH EASILY WINTER KILL"

"platitude: the broken heart"

"a plausible finish"

"PLEA TO A PASSING MAID"

"pleasure song"

"The Pleasures" (two versions)

"poem about the mice"

"Poem for an Errand Boy in the Year 1941"

"poem for an x-bank clerk"

"POEM FOR BARBARA, POEM FOR JANE, POEM FOR FRANCES, POEM FOR ALL OR ANY OF THEM-"

"poem for Dante"

"A POEM FOR ED BLAIR"

"a poem for Elvis P. and Charley the B.:"

"A POEM FOR ERNEST H.-"

"POEM FOR JACK MICHELENE"

"A poem for Jimmy, Lafayette and Red"

"poem for my brother toy christs to make the nights shorter---"

"POEM FOR MY DAUGHTER"

"Poem For Personal Managers:"

"poem for revolutionaries"

"POEM FOR THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN SERVICEMAN IN VIETNAM:"

"A Poem For the Swingers"

"a poem for the 3 or 4 who know"

"Poem for the 22nd. century" (two versions)

"A POEM IS A CITY"

"A POEM TO MYSELF"

"poem written while listening to a classical symphony:"

"poems'

"poet in residence"

"POETESS -- FOR S.S.V."

"poetry"

"THE POETRY READING"

"poetry, you whore..."

"the poet's muse"

"the POLICE helicopter"

"polish sausage" (two versions)

"poor Trochi"

"pop pop pop"

"POWER FAILURE"

"Practice"

"PRAYER FOR BROKEN-HANDED LOVERS"

"PRAYER OF AN ISOLATIONIST:" (two versions)

"praying for a best seller" (two versions)

"the priest in the pantry"

"private first class"

"the problem with concrete poetry is the same as the problem with concrete people"

"the problem with the English departments of/ our land" (first two lines)

"problems about the other woman"

"the professors"

"the proud thin dying"

"pull a string, a puppet moves..."

"Punch down lions"

"PURPLE AND BLACK"

"?"

"radio"

"rain" (two versions)

"rat poison"

"rats"

"raw"

"raw with love (for n.w.)" (two versions)

"the reading"

"the red porsche"

"REGULAR GRIND: the coffee life"

"REMAINS"

"REXAL CUT*RATE, 4:30 P.M.:"

"Rhyming Poem" "RIOT"

"ROBERT RYAN: AMERICAN MATADOR" (two versions)

"THE ROCK"

"rolled"

"ROLLED AGAIN"

"A ROLLING POEM"

"THE ROPE OF GLASS (for him)"

"rosary for a once tenderness"

"Roses are red violets are blue" (two versions)

"ROUND TRIP (FOR T.H.)"

"ROYAL. TAB CLEAR. TAB SET. MAR REL. BACK SPACE:"

"S.R.O."

"sad-eyed mules of men" (two versions)

"sailing up your yellow river"

"same game" (two versions)

"Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer"

"THE SANDWICH"

"SARTRE WILL SHAVE, "

"SAVE THE PIER"

"THE SCALE"

"the scene" (two versions)

"SCISSORS FOR SUMMER + FALL + [?]"

"SCREAMS FROM THE CAGE"

"THE SCREW-GAME"

"THE SEA WALKED IN AND OUT..."

"SEE CLARK GABLE, ALMOST REAL ENOUGH TO FART..."

"THE SEMINAR (dedicated to my betters)" (plus one leaf of earlier version)

"sensible brush, sleeping/ flower, I awaken" (first lines)

"TEHE SEPARATE EYE"

"the serious boys..."

"SEVEN FEET BY THREE AND ONE HALF FEET TALL"

"the 7 horse AND OTHER THINGS"

"75 MILLION DOLLARS"

"the sewer"

"THE SEX FIENDS"

"share the pain"

"the sharks"

"she lost weight"

"sheets" (two versions)

"shines and looks"

"shit" (two versions)

"the shit shits" (two versions)

"shoelace"

"THE SHOELACE"

"SHOOT THE GOAT THROUGH THE HEAD AND PAINT THE BONES GREEN-" (two versions)

"the shooting of the sperm and the shooting up with love is only a partial process."

"short order"

"six"

"6 A.M."

"I6 Jap Machinegun Bullets Anywhere Forever. . ."

"6:21 P.M."

"sleeping woman"

"slim killers"

"small time advice"

"A Smart Girl"

"smiling, shining, singing"

"THE SMOKING CAR" (two versions)

"snakes + spiders"

"so big black boy leaves with threats and/ his bad poetry " (first two lines)

"society should realize. . . ."

"THE SOLAR MASS: SOUL: GENESIS AND GEOTROPISM:" (two versions)

"solid mahogeny"

"Solid State Marty"

"some men are islands"

"some order is finally what me might be after." (first line)

"some picnic"

"something about a cat"

"Something About a Woman"

"something about the action:"

"something on Berlioz"

"sometimes it is nice to/ have them all about/ in their various/ colored dresses and/ neurosis. . ." (first stanza)

"song" (two versions)

"Song for this softly-sweeping sorrow. . ." (two versions)

"song of the hermit"

"SONG OF THE VANQUISED"

"A Song to the Glorious Lonely" (two versions)

"Songs of Death"

"Sons of Your Dreams" (plus one photostat)

"soul"

"the souls of the dead animals"

"a sound in the brush" (two versions)

"Soup, Cosmos and Tears"

"space"

"SPAIN SITS LIKE A HIDDEN FLOWER IN MY COFFEEPOT"

"sparrow" (two versions)

"the spider"

"a split" (two versions)

"stag" (two versions)

"stand it up in the darkening light"

"STARVE, GO[D] MAD, OR KILL YOURSELF" (two versions)

"starving sunset" (two versions)

"THE STATUS Q. For ME and Yew. . ."

"STOP DRINKING, DRINKING, DRINKING. . ."

"story and poem"

"The Stranger"

"the strangest sight you ever did see-"

"the strangest thing"

"stravinsky"

"streaking* (*running naked through a crowd so quickly that one is hardly taken note of)"

"style" ("keep me strong in tiny rooms crawling with roaches" [first line])

"style" ("style is the answer to everything-" [first line]) (two versions)

"Success"

"summer"

'The Sun is the God of the Artic"

"the sun itself, I gueess, is the only thing that doesn't need the love of luck-"

"the sun, the bushes, the hell of it-"

"sunlight, and nightime thoughts"

"Sunset and Western"

"THE SWAN"

"SWASTIKA STAR BUTTONED TO MY ASS"

"T.H.I.A.L.H."

"TALKS IN ROOM 109 WITH ONE-EYED HARRY:"

"Tapioca"

"tarot"

"teeth"

"telephone"

"telephone wire"

"TERROR"

"that Chinaman did right"

"that liberating movement"

"that one"

"there are demons in all our heavens" (two versions)

"THERE IS SOMETHING VERY UGLY ABOUT CIRCUSES AND PICNICS TOO-"

"there's people in places where snow lives"

"THESE MAD WINDOWS THAT TASTE LIFE AND CUT ME IF I GO THROUGH THEM" (two versions)

"THESE THINGS"

"they brought me chance and hope and feeling, in a place of no chance, no hope, no feeling." (plus one photostat)

"this drunk"

"THIS EVER HAPPEN TO GORKY OR MAILER?"

"this grace we steady"

"THIS IS THE WAY IT GOES AND GOES AND GOES"

"this is the way it works. . ."

"this night"

"this one"

"this one poet"

"THOSE DAYS" (two versions)

"those sons of bitches"

"a thousand armies, armies. . ." (two versions)

"THOUSANDS OF POUNDS UPON A DIRTY RIBBON. . ."

"a threat to my immortality" (two versions)

"3 Lovers"

"3:I6 and one half. . ."

"3 young cops"

"THROUGH THE STREETS OF ANYWHERE"

"tigers (FOR BLAKE) (ONE WM.)"

"TIGHT BLACK PANTS"

"TIGHT PINK DRESS"

"the time I took THIS alky to a high class play"

"tired of wild and vacant eyes"

"to a critic of sorts:"

"to go on a little small while"

"TO HELL WITH ROBERT SCHUMANN"

"To-me poem: with bomb attached-"

"to the ABOVE:"

"to weep in her hair"

"tonalities upon distances of frustration and exhilaration-"

"tonight" ("tonight/ I have 2 spiders along a crack in the wall" [first lines]) (this is poem #2 and is filed under the title of poem #1: "THE END")

"TONIGHT" ("your sex is my salvation" [first line])

"TOUGH LUCK"

"Tougher than Corned Beef Hash-"

"tragedy is my bacon"

"A TRAGIC STORY'

"A TRAINRIDE IN HELL"

"transgression upon the senses" (first line)

": : : Transition"

"transplant" (two versions)

"trap"

"the trash men" (two versions)

"the triangle"

"trilerr suller dinner talba/ springs attach" (first two lines)

"TROUBLE WITH SPAIN"

"A Tuesday South of the North Pole"

"TUNE OFF THE SIDE OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN DREAM"

"tv" (two versions)

"12:18 a.m."

"12,000 DOLLARS IN 3 MONTHS. . .

"12, 12, 72: The Harry Truman Deathbed Blues"

"12-24-74"

"29 chilled grapes"

"twisting sheets"

"2 a.m. in the afternoon ha HA with my foot asleep. . ."

"2 carnations" (two versions)

"2-ezra-buk"

"2 FLIES"

"2 horseollars"

"200 yards from the surf"

"200 Years"

"2 immortal poems" (two versions)

"2 men with blue arm bands meet me/ outside my apartment house/ door." (first lines)

"2 spiders, and the wind. . ." (two versions)

"2347 Duane" (two versions)

"2,294"

"under"

"THE UNDERGROUND" (three versions)

"UNDERWOOD-made in u.s.a."

"AN UNHAPPY LADY" (two versions)

"uninvolvment" (two versions)

'UPON A JUSTIFICATION [?]"

"UPON AN INVITATION TO A PARTY IN WEST L.A., WHICH I DIDN'T GO TO:"

"Upon Going to Bed with a Copy of COSMOPOLITAN:"

"UPON LISTENING TO SOMETHING BY ONE H. BERLIOZ"

"UPON LISTENING TO SYMPHONY MUSIC WHILE DRUNK:"

"Upon Shaving a 52 year old Face:"

"UPON THIS SACRED ATROCITY OF BREATHING-"

"UPON 2 DEATHS"

"UPPER CASE"

"URAGUAY OR HELL"

"Use of the Continuous Present"

"UTAH"

"VACANCY"

"Vacation in Greece"

"Vallejo" ("it is hard to find a man" [first line]) (two versions)

"Vallejo" ("Vallejo, he asked me, what'd he do?" [first line]) (plus one photostat)

"the vast area of space nothingness with snakes crawling through me and you and everything-"

"Vegetables"

"Venice, Calif."

"VERY"

"a very dramatic man" (two versions)

"a very sad story"

"the vile world of windows and hammers-"

"the violin player" (two versions)

"the virgins of the bulls" (two versions)

"THE VISIONS OF MY EXISTENCE LIKE STARTLED BLACKBIRDS:"

"A visitor from Canada"

"a visitor sits on my couch"

"the voice of the Bukowski"

"VOICE on the telephone:"

"voices"

"THE WAILING WALL" (two versions)

"THE WAITRESS"

"WAR AND PIECE"

"war war war"

"WARBLE IN -----"

"A Warm Afternoon Just Off Sunset Blvd."

"warm asses"

"WARNING"

"warts"

"WASTE BASKET"

"watchdog"

"the watermelon life"

"the wax job"

"the way"

"A way to make it" (two versions)

"we can't"

"WE DO OUR WORK"

"WE, THE ARTISTS-"