Drinking with Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row

by Daniel Weizmann

The 20th century's greatest poet was a guy from L.A. called Hank, who talked straight, drank hard, faced truth, and exposed beauty and vulnerability like no other in his place and time. Drinking with Bukowski is a celebration of that utterly original voice featuring contributions from everyone from the women who loved him to the Hollywood cognoscenti who courted him, from writers who admired him and actors who tried to emulate him to the barflies, strippers, gangsters, poets, crazies, and dreamers who knew him: Raymond Carver, Wanda Coleman, Harold Norse, Michael C. Ford, and Paul Vangelisti pay homage and recount the Dionysian days of L.A. poetry; record producer Harvey Robert Kubernik and journalist Barry Miles remember capturing Buk on vinyl for the first time; novelist Steve Abee remembers the early days of L.A.'s underground newspapers - Open City and the L.A. Free Press - Bukowski's early stomping grounds.

Genres: Poetry, Biography

228 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2000

About the author

Daniel Weizmann is the author the Pacific Coast Highway Mystery series. Crime fiction legend T. Jefferson Parker described series debut The Last Songbird as "rock noir at its best...half Warren Zevon and half Raymond Chandler." New York Times bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman described the second title in the series, Cinnamon Girl, as “Evocative, nostalgic, haunting, twisty, and true...everything there is to love about a classic PI novel." Daniel's work has also appeared in the LA Times, the UK Guardian, Billboard, and California Magazine.

Reviews

[Zack · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Henry Joyce · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a very easy read that documents the public persona of bukowski through accounts of others. if u like buk this is a great poolside read that doesn’t require much besides basking in this larger than life figure

[R.d. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have the pleasure of being included in this anthology and for that reason alone I think it's worth reading!

[Joe Collier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another collection of memories form people whose lives intersected Bukowski's.