Various (Smith, Joan Jobe (Editor); Bukowski, Charles; Huffstickler, Albert; King, Linda; Locklin, Gerald; Menebroker, Ann; Peters, Robert; Raindog; Trachtenberg, Paul; Winans, A.D. et al.)

Das ist Alles: Charles Bukowski Recollected

ISBN: 0962809489
Long Beach, CA: Pearl Editions, 1996. Second Printing. “I can’t remember now when I first met Charles Bukowski, live, and in person close enough to touch his leathery hide, count the craters on the worn-out moon of his world-weary face. How far-out and rather romantic, though, it would’ve been (for me) had our beat-up paths crossed, as many have asked me if they did, when I was a go-go girl and he was a barfly, him looking up at me, this fringed floozy and me looking down on him, the boozy Beat Man, and both of us crying out, one disenchanted evening, strangers across a crowded, smoky, barroom, “Eureka! A poet!” But when I was shaking my tail feathers eight days a week in the early ‘70s, he was writing his “Notes of a Dirty Old Man,” 25 miles the other side of L.A. County for the Los Angeles Free Press, seriously in lust and love with his fellow L.A. poet Linda King, the First Linda, not the Last Linda, the one he’d later marry. Besides, he was too serious of a drinking man and probably too broke to pay the high prices they charged in those go-go bars back then for watered-down drinks. No, by the time we finally met, we’d both literally cleaned up our acts, me as an undergraduate at California State University Long Beach where I was trying to make something of myself and him making the university rounds as an up-and-coming, letting-it-all-hang-out, sock-it-to-ya celebrity poet…”--Joan Jobe Smith, “My Life Without Bukowski,” pg 12. Das Ist Alles, otherwise known as “That is All,” is a collection of writings, poems, and remembrances dedicated to/about the late, great poet-vagabond-extraordinaire, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). Released two years after his death, Das Ist Alles serves as a lovingly crafted and painstakingly constructed ode to Buk and shows the extent to which he was loved and respected by his peers. Edited by Joan Jobe Smith–editor and founder of Pearl and Bukowski Review, and longtime mentee & friend of Buk–Das Ist Alles is a smorgasbord of literary legends and close friends of the great writer, featuring the likes of: poems, essays, and anecdotes by Joan Jobe Smith herself; a number of poems and iconic sketches by Buk; “A Buk Elegy” by Paul Trachtenberg; “On The Death of Bukowski” by Billy Collins (b. 1941); “Charles Bukowski: A Remembrance” by Gerald Locklin (1941-2021); a handful of poems by Linda King (b. 1940), longtime partner of Buk’s; and “Elegy For a Giant” by Fred Voss (b. 1952) among many other great contributions and contributors! Chapbook in stapled wrappers. First edition though not explicated as such, second printing as stated at copyright page “Second printing, February, 1996.” In very fine condition with only slight wear to fine edges and light staining/smudging to front and back covers. Very Fine. [Item #7996]

Price: $30.00