VITALE: The factories, the horrors and the drunk tanks were a big part of Bukowski's success, which came relatively late. What am I doing with this leisure? Where did the factories go and the horrors and the drunk tanks? It's called "Do You Use A Notebook."ĬHARLES BUKOWSKI: I turn on my radio and light a cigarette. So in 1981, when a young reporter showed up at his home in San Pedro, Calif., the 60-year-old author read a poem about the stupid questions interviewers ask. TOM VITALE, BYLINE: Charles Bukowski was annoyed and amused by the world around him. I wanted to be a writer, so I did that.īukowski in the end was not rejected. In one poem, the writer described taking all the little rejection slips that he received when publishers turned down his work and taping them on the wall as a kind of bitter motivation. Years ago, a friend showed me poetry of Charles Bukowski.
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