Hey Scott....

Fancy meeting you here! :)

I sent you a long e-amil about last night's Steeler game. Now I'm going to check out what books we share! :)
Beth

posted by bethann at 9:58 am (EST) on Nov 27, 2007

Hey Scott:

The book arrived today and I signed it and put it back in the mail. Many thanks for giving me the opportunity to do this. Thank you also for including a copy of Places. Your poetry is hard and edgy. Very good stuff.

All best,
Jeff

posted by JWeddle at 3:15 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2007

You honor me, Scott. I truly appreciate your buying my book and I'm delighted to sign it. Check your email for my address.

All best,
Jeff

posted by JWeddle at 10:19 am (EST) on Aug 10, 2007

Thanks for the welcome, Scott.

posted by stavthewonderchicken at 9:06 am (EST) on Aug 9, 2007

Hey Scott:

Just a quick clarification: That letter from Buk to me is in Reach for the Sun, not Screams from the Balcony. I was typing sleepy last night....

Hope all's well.

Jeff

posted by JWeddle at 10:01 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2007

Hey Scott:

I've never met Gerry in the flesh, but I still consider him an old and dear friend. Back in the 1980s I was trying to write a master's thesis on Bukowski in the English Dept. at the University of Kentucky. I came across Gerry's work in the Wormwood Review and pieced together his friendship with Bukowski and his affiliation with CSULB. I wrote Gerry and told him what I was trying to do and he responded at once with great enthusiasm and warmth. In addition to sending me Buk's mailing address, Gerry became a real mentor to me. He sent me a great many of his books--no charge, of course--and we corresponded for quite a while. I wrote Bukowski and got a nice reply from him which, incidently, is included in Screams from the Balcony. The thesis went unfinished because I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my faculty advisor was a typical academic who hated Bukowski and had no use for anyone who thought Buk's work was of value. He told me that there was no point in doing any work on Bukowski since no one had published a book on him. I truly don't think he understood the circularity of that argument.

I ended up ditching the English MA and did an MS in Library Science instead. I did my doctorate in Communications at UT, finishing up in 2002. Now I teach library school at the U. of Alabama.

Knoxville is a great town and I do miss it. I wish I could get back there more often.

I used the letter I got from Bukowski as a tiny part of my primary research for Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press, which was published in June by the University Press of Mississippi. I know there have been a bunch of books on Buk published before mine, but it still pleases me that I finally got something out there in spite of the learned scholar who sabotaged me so long ago.

It's great to be in touch with you. Now it's time fo me to hit the sack. Hope all's well on your end.

All best,
Jeff

posted by JWeddle at 12:35 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2007

Hey Scott:

Delighted to meet a fellow UT grad and Bukophile. Hope all's well up there in Chattanooga.

Did you study with Gerry Locklin at CSULB?

All best,
Jeff

posted by JWeddle at 8:38 am (EST) on Aug 2, 2007

Hi scott

posted by jilly9 at 7:47 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2007

Thanks for the commment. My one and only so far. I have thousands of books, most in a public storage miles away but I've put samples of my primary obsessions onto my list on this site in contemplation of putting the whole enchalada on here. RE: "Bukowski Never Did This" - I know of Jack Saunders because he is a friend of a friend and my friend gave me a Jack Saunders book three Christmas's in a row. Jack Saunders has a voice as a writer who tries to get this world we live in onto paper. The mundane and mildly insane world of the working poor from his perspective as a writer who continues to write even though he has to primarily publish himself. I think it is a voice that should be heard. Entertaining and enlightening although, like Bukowski sometimes teetering into self absorbtion to the detriment of the reader's interest. "Bukowski Never Did This" is not my favorite, it is the most recent one I got. The answer to the obvious question, I don't know what my favorite is. Not on this Saturday morning as I try to make some reply before dashing off to work.

posted by wrayb at 9:32 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2007

Yeah I've seen him 2x-- at Stanford U. when he introduced andrey voznesensky, and at black oak books in berkeley (right when Americus was published). Actually, a funny story about that. I was wearing a Street Fighter shirt, and he asked me about it-- as in what it was. I responded that it was a video game, and he made some under-his-breath comment about crazy things these days. I also commented that his rhymes have become more prominent in his later work, and he blatantly denied it (although I still maintain that I'm totally right).

Unfortunately, I was too young to appreciate Ginsberg when he was still alive, and I missed buk as well.

Crap, man, it's rare to meet people randomly online who share the same inspiration-- since ferlinghetti is hardly the most popular poet of the beat era, even if he was materially the most important to their success.

posted by Elecid at 7:56 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2007

Thanks for the compliment! I haven't indexed all my books on here, so I do have one Patchen book, but it's just the selected poems. His illustrations are fascinating sometimes. Ferlinghetti was my inspiration to begin writing poetry, so I share your sentiments. That old kook still gives great readings.

I must acquire that book on gothic rock that you have. It seems to be relatively rare. Time to start scouring!

posted by Elecid at 7:36 am (EST) on Jan 21, 2007

Hehe...I found you by searching for Bukowski, and then searching within the page for screen names with Scott in them. I kinda figured you'd pick something easy, hehe. :)

You know, I've never read Bukowski! I should give him a try.

How cool that you're a librarything author!

♥

posted by goddessladyj at 1:28 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2007

Welcome! :)

posted by goddessladyj at 2:42 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2007