Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967.

Bukowski, Charles.

ISBN 10: 1574231529 / ISBN 13: 9781574231526

Published by Black Sparrow Press, 2001

About this Item

A Fine copy in Acetate dust jacket. 1/526 copies with Bukowski serigraph. In 1960, Bukowski began an eight year correspondence Sheri Martinelli who at the time published a literary magazine called Anagogic & Paideumic that Bukowski submitted poetry. But Martinelli wasn't just any small press publisher. She was a protoge of Anais Nin, the muse and mistress of Ezra Pound, friends with Charlie Parker, admirered by Marlon Brando, friends with many of the Beat writers among many other notable talents and associations. This collection of letters follows their postal relationship from its early critical exchange to their confrontational end.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967.
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574231529
• ISBN 13: 9781574231526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Charles Bukowski

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Synopsis

Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski—America's "Ultimate Outsider"

• Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation
• Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted
• Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize.

Sheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.

About the Author

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.