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Charles Bukowski
08.16.1920 - 03.09.1994
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so you want to be a writer?

if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because ...
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march 2003

The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski and the Second Coming Revolution
- A. D. Winans - Dustbooks

Bukowski and The Beats: A Commentary on the Beat Generation (Translated from the French by Alison Ardron)((Followed by: An Evening at Buk's Place - an Interview with Charles Bukowski)
- Jean-Francois Duval - Sun Dog Press

Drinking With Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row
- edited by Daniel Weizmann
- Thunder Mouth Press

The Life Force Poems
- Gerald Locklin - Water Row Press

The Clevelanders
- Kirpan Press - A. Horvath

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