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Reading Buk No. 7
‘this moment’
By Charles Bukowski
from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 6
‘nobody but you’
By Charles Bukowski
from sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 5
‘the Word’
By Charles Bukowski
from The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 4
‘the writer’
By Charles Bukowski
from The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 3
‘the miracle’
By Charles Bukowski
from The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 2
‘mind and heart’
By Charles Bukowski
from Come On In!
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 1
‘some notes on Bach and Haydn’
By Charles Bukowski
from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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Jay Walker’s Library
of Human Imagination
For anyone who toils in the creative realm, surrounding oneself with sources of inspiration is vital to survival.
While the muse often manifests in the strangest places at the most unexpected times, she’s notoriously fickle, often ignoring even the most desperate distress calls. Mystifying and unreliable is the muse, and creators cannot idly wait for some outside force to trigger the cogs of the imagination.
Art begets art.
Yet, the creative process inherently demands recurrent sparks of inspiration. The presence of art, in its multitudinous incarnations, emits such an energy to kindle the nerve endings of the mind’s eye. Personal libraries—of books, of music, of movies, of art and other creations—offer a milieu conducive to creative work, filling a space with spirits that urge us to imagine and re-imagine, to continually seek new knowledge, to see the possibilities in and of our artistic endeavors. Art begets art, creativity breeds creativity.
Jay Walker knows this.
For more than 30 years, throughout his adult life, Walker has been amassing a large collection of books; for the last 20 years, he has added countless artifacts, along with rare books and manuscripts, to his treasury. Without a dedicated room to house his growing collection, books and other items spread throughout his home, occupying any suitable space in various rooms. But Walker had an idea—one that would not only solve the practical issue of storage but also bring together the pieces of his vast, unique collection in inspiring yet functional fashion.
“I’m an inventor by trade,” said Walker, founder of Priceline.com and Walker Digital chairman/lead inventor, during our conversation last week. “Why not build a library of human imagination?” Read more…
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Sifting Through the Madness
A Conversation With Michael J. Phillips,
Founder and Editor of Bukowski.net
From the moment I read my first Bukowski poem (“so you want to be a writer?”) in my first Bukowski book (“sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way”), I was hooked.
I had never read anything like it, and I wanted more—and more.
Over the next several years, I would buy a new Bukowski book—a collection of poems, columns, stories, letters, essays, or a full-length novel—whenever possible. The sheer volume of his work is matched only by the quality of it all. As my writing partner (who first recommended Bukowski) and I often do during late-night, wine-drinking phone conversations, picking any page number from any collection results in the same reaction: “Wow!” Read more…
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Freeing the Spirits
More than a year ago, my wife and I decided to sell our house, and it sold—quickly. So we found an apartment in Asheville, about 30 minutes east of our home for the previous three-and-a-half years. Being that we—plan in mind—thought it a temporary situation, we delivered most of our possessions, save for the essentials (a couple of chairs, a mattress, corkscrew and computer), to three plywood-walled storage units. What had become a fairly extensive personal library—450 volumes or so—would be sheltered from the musty 100-square-foot containers in gray plastic bins and cardboard boxes (see Boxing Up Bukowski, this blog’s forebear).
A writer’s library is a room full of muses.
But the temporary situation, well, evolved; in the meantime a challenge presented itself: finish a book I was co-writing without a little help from my friends (i.e., the spirit and words of the authors of the books that once filled the space in which I wrote). The rich red walls, lined with just enough shelves to accommodate the collection, and a regal-looking cherry wood desk had been replaced by bland white walls, with only a few books stacked on the floor, and a black square card table. Though trying at times during those months, I survived—but not without adding about a hundred new books to that stack on the floor. Read more…
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