Screams From the Balcony (50 page)

 

—Seamus Cooney Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan

NOTES TO AFTERWORD

¹
He had to suffer the complaints of his neighbors, though, and was forced to agreenot to type after 10 p.m. in his first apartment (see Jan. 28, 1964, p. 102).

²
Neeli Cherkovski made a similar point about Bukowski’s diction: “In the heart of the sixties he remained untouched by hippie terminology, employing it only sarcastically to prove a point” (
Hank
, p. 189). Curiously, one of the few literary allusions to familiar quotations that I have spotted in these letters is to Spenser’s remark that Chaucer is “a well of English undefiled” (Bukowski calls the Cantos “a well of Pounding unrecognized” [5]). (Another allusion is to the last lines of Eliot’s
Prufrock
.)

³
See Jack Kerouac, “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” and “Essentialsof Spontaneous Prose” (1957), reprinted in
New American Story
, ed. Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley (New York: Grove Press, 1965), pp. 269-271.

⁴
Unpublished paper by Russell Harrison, whose
The Outsider As Insider: Essays on Charles Bukowski
is forthcoming from Black Sparrow Press.

⁵
Letter of June 23, 1965, not otherwise excerpted in the present volume.

⁶
To Louis Delpino, August 2, 1967.

⁷
Jonathan Raban,
The New Republic
(7/19-26/93), p. 35.

The Index lists the recipients of the letters and other persons mentioned in them, as well as titles of literary works and magazines.

A

“Absence of the Hero” (Bukowski)

Acid
(magazine)

Aiken, Conrad

Aldington, Richard

All the Assholes in the World and Mine
(Bukowski)

America Is in the Heart
(Bulosan)

The Anatomy of Love
(Corrington)

Anderson, Sherwood

Apple Records

Aristotle

Arrows of Longing
(Orlovitz)

Artaud, Antonin

Asphodel Books

The Atlantic
(magazine)

At Terror Street and Agony Way
(Bukowski)

“At the End of Feet the Blackbird Walks” (Bukowski)

Auden, W. H.

B

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Baker, Jane Cooney

Baldwin, James

Balzac, Honoré de

Bauman.
See
Menebroker, Ann Bauman

Beatitude
(magazine)

Beery, Wallace

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Behan, Brendan

Beiles, Sinclair

Bell, Marvin

Bennett, John

Best Poems of 1963

Bevan, Alan

Biggs, E. Power

“The Birds” (Bukowski)

Blackburn, Paul

Black Cat Review
(magazine)

Black Mountain

Black Sparrow Press

Black Sun Press

Blake, William

Blast
(magazine)

Blazek, Douglas

Bly, Robert

Boccaccio, Giovanni

“The Body” (Bukowski)

Bogart, Humphrey

Bonheim, Helmut

Border Press

Borestone Awards

Braddock, Jersey Joe

Brahms, Johannes

Breakthru
(magazine)

Brecht, Bertolt

Brooke, Rupert

Broom
(magazine)

Brothers Karamazov
(Dostoevsky)

Bruckner, Anton

Bryan, John

Bukowski, Marina

A Bukowski Sampler

Bulosan, Carlos

Bunin, Ivan

Burnett, Whit

Burroughs, William

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

C

Cage, John

Camus, Albert

“Candidate Middle of Left-Right Center” (Bukowski)

Canto
(magazine)

The Cantos
(Pound)

Capone, Al

Cassady, Neal

Celine, Louis Ferdinand

Cerf, Bennett

Cervantes, Miguel de

Chat Noir Review
(magazine)

Chatterton, Thomas

Chekhov, Anton

Cherry (Cherkovski), Neeli

Chicago Literary Times
. See
Literary Times

Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography

Chopin, Frederic

Coastlines
(magazine)

Coffin
(magazine)

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard
(Bukowski)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

“Confessions of a Coward and Man Hater” (Bukowski)

Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts
(Bukowski)

Confucius

Congdon, Kirby

Conrad, Joseph

“The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, California” (Bukowski)

El Corno Emplumado
(magazine)

A Correspondence of Americans
(Hirschman)

Corrington, John William

Corso, Gregory

“The Corybant of Wit” (Bukowski)

Crane, Hart

Creeley, Robert

Crews, Judson

Crime and Punishment
(Dostoevsky)

Crosby, Caresse

Crucifix in a Deathhand
(Bukowski)

Crucifix (cont.)

Cummings, E. E.

The Curtains Are Waving
(Bukowski)

Cuscaden, R. R.

D

Dante

Dare
(magazine)

Davies, W. H.

Davis, Bette

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
(Bukowski)

“The Dead Stay Alive Too Long…” (Bukowski)

Dean, James

“The Death of a Roach” (Bukowski)

“Death Wants More Death” (Bukowski)

Decade 1953

The Decameron
(Boccaccio)

DeLoach, Allen

Delpino, Louis

The Dial
(magazine)

Dickey, James (and/or William?)

“Dinner, Rain & Transport” (Bukowski)

DiPrima, Diane

Dohnanyi, Ernst von

Donleavy, J. P.

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)

Dorbin, Sanford

Dorn, Ed

Dos Passos, John

Dostoievsky, Fyodor

Down Here
(magazine)

Down, Off
&
Out
(Want-ling)

Doyle, Kirby

Duffy, William

Duncan, Robert

Dylan, Bob

E

Earth
(magazine)

Earth Rose
(Richmond)

Eckman, Frederic

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Eliot, T. S.

Emanon
(magazine)

Epos
(magazine)

Esquire
(magazine)

Essex House

Evergreen Review
(magazine)

Evidence
(magazine)

F

Fante, John

Faulkner, William

Federman, Raymond

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Fett, Heinrich

The Fifties
(magazine)

“and Drinks” (Bukowski)

Fink, Robert

Finnegans Wake
(Joyce)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Flame
(magazine)

Flaubert, Gustave

Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail
(Bukowski)

Ford, Henry

Forever Worship the Second Coming
(ed. Kryss)

Forrest, Michael

Fox, Hugh

Franck, César

Franklyn, A. Frederick

Freud, Sigmund

Frost, Robert

G

Gallows
(magazine)

Gandhi, Mahatma

Garbo, Greta

Gasoline
(Corso)

Genet, Jean

The Genius of the Crowd
(Bukowski)

The Gentleman from San Francisco
(Bunin)

Georgakas, Dan

Ginsberg, Allen

Gleason, Jackie

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Gogol, Nikolai

Goldwater, Barry

Gorki, Maxim

Gounod, Charles

Grainger, Percy

Grande Ronde Review
(magazine)

Griffith, E. V.

Grove Press

Guys and Dolls

Gysin, Brion

H

Hamsun, Knut

Handel, George Frederic

Hank
(Cherkovski)

Happiness Bastard
(Doyle)

Harlequin
(magazine)

Harpers
(magazine)

Haydn, Franz Joseph

H.D.
See
Doolittle, Hilda

Hearse
(magazine)

Hecht, Ben

Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm

Hemingway, Ernest

Henry, O.

Hirschman, Jack

“His Wife the Painter” (Bukowski)

Hitler, Adolf

Hitler Painted Roses
(Richmond)

Hoover, Herbert

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hope, Bob

“The House” (Bukowski)

Housman, A. E.

Howl
(Ginsberg)

“Hunting Season” (Purdy)

Huxley, Aldous

I

“I Hate Old Postmen” (Corso)

Illuminations
(magazine)

International Bookfinders

Intrepid
(magazine)

Ionesco, Eugene

It Catches My Heart in Its Hands
(Bukowski)

J

Jacaranda
(magazine)

James, Henry

Jeffers, Robinson

Johnson, Kaye

Johnson, Lyndon

Jones, James

Jones, LeRoi

The Journal UnAmerican
(magazine)

Journey to the End of the Night
(Celine)

Joyce, James

K

Kabalevsky, Dmitri

Kafka, Franz

Kaja.
See
Johnson, Kaye

Kant, Immanuel

Kaye, Arnold

Keats, John

“Keats and Marlowe” (Bukowski)

Kelly, Robert

Kennedy, John F.

Kenyon Review
(magazine)

Kerouac, Jack

Kitt, Eartha

Klactoveedsedsteen
(magazine)

Klee, Paul

Kodaly, Zoltan

KPFK

Kretch, Richard

Kryss, T. L.

L

Lamantia, Philip

Lamar, Hedy

Larsen, Carl

Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns
(magazine)

The Laughing Rooster
(Layton)

Lawrence, D. H.

Layton, Irving

Leary, Timothy

A Legionere
(Mason)

“A Letter from Chuck Buk” (Pollak)

“Letter from the North” (Bukowski)

Levertov, Denise

Levy, D. A.

Lewis, Sinclair

Life
(magazine)

“The Life, Birth, and Death of an Underground Newspaper” (Bukowski)