Visceral Bukowski: Inside the Sniper Landscape of L.A. Writers - Softcover

Pleasants, Ben

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9780941543385: Visceral Bukowski: Inside the Sniper Landscape of L.A. Writers

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ISBN 10: 0941543382 ISBN 13: 9780941543385

Publisher: Sun Dog Press, 2004

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Cultural Writing. VISCERAL BUKOWSKI is a memoir of a 20-year friendship with deep insights into the personal life of Charles Bukowski and the city of Los Angeles. Here are clear chapters on childhood friends, Bukowski's flirtation with Nazism, how Pleasants and Bukowski together rediscover John Fante, adventures in Hollywood, the women, the jobs, the booze and the writing; the way it really happened without the fiction. A strikingly rich portrayal of Bukowski, a poet, who was "alive and glowing in his place in time"--Los Angeles Times.

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About the Author:

Ben Pleasants is a writer who writes about writers. As a contributor to the Los Angeles Times, he was the first writer in the U.S. to review Charles Bukowski in a major newspaper.

His books of poetry include Airmail From Oblivion and 53 Stations of the Tokaido. In the last decade he has concentrated on theatre.

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"Pleasants offers a strikingly rich portrayal of Bukowski, a poet who was 'alive and glowing in his place in time.'"

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