Spinning Off Bukowski

By Steve Richmond

Spinning Off Bukowski This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941543102
• ISBN13: 9780941543101
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Sun Dog Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

I'm the author

My only criticism of this volume is a good number of vital chapters are missing.. edited out. Every chapter is a single interaction of myself with Bukowski: I relive the event (in the present tense) writing down exactly what is happening, along with the when/where/who/why factors involved. My publisher had a "pre-set" length in pages (around 150) that he wanted to print/publish. Therefore my original manuscript was cut down to a much shorter final manuscript. Thus SPINNING OFF BUKOWSKI shows a good deal of "blank canvas" in its final printed form (at least on my eye). It seems to me a finished SPINNING would approach 500 pages rather than the 150 page volume now on sale all over the place (Earth). E mail me (por favor) if interested.

Unorthodox, intriguing and memorable

Steve Richmond's memoir of his close friendship with the late, great American poet Charles Bukowski may not be the most orthodox of books - indeed it is a very strange book, written with apparently gleeful disregard for the conventions of structure, jumping about all over the place like a bunny rabbit on acid - but, paradoxically, that is one of its strenghts. Odd books stick in the mind long after other, smoother works are forgotten, and that is certainly true of "Spinning off Bukowski." In a conformist world, Mr. Richmond is clearly a singular personality and his entertraining memoir of a bitter-sweet friendship rings true, for this reader at least. It is also agreeably short, as well as having some rather interesting drawings. Recommended for those willing to try something new.

it's ok

I would have to give it to the author on balance. Perhaps a few details about werner darton jr would have helped. Werner was Bukowski's secret bete noir. Even more than John Fante's ASK THE DUST, werner's novel published in pre-nazi germany circa 1924 and titled ADOLPH IS ALIVE AND WELL IN BOSTON, influenced Bukowski's style of making a short story plot/theme fit within prose poetry strictures.

This book is by far the best about buk. read it !!!!!!!!!!!

an honest and gripping story of a man and his friend straight from the dogs mouth.

Hank would buy this book

A great book about buk by his drinking buddy, pal, and longtime devotee. Its hank warts and all, a very personal bukowskiesque picture of the man behind the poesy. It has the familer raw truth feel of a buk poem. In honor of the great man I'll bring it down to this: THIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR EVERY BUK FAN!