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Reading Buk No. 20
‘the word’
By Charles Bukowski
from Bone Palace Ballet
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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. 17
‘hell is a closed door’
By Charles Bukowski
from The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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Reading Buk No. 15
‘upon reading a critical review’
By Charles Bukowski
from Betting on the Muse
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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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Persistence is a Virtue
“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success—but only if you persist.”—Isaac Asimov
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Rejecting Rejection
There’s no worse feeling for a writer: opening the mailbox to discover an envelope addressed to you, written by you.
The news is never good. There’s no need, really, to even open the damn thing. But you’re a writer, ergo a bit of a masochist. A voice inside your head whispers, “Hey, you never know.”
So, despite the urge to burn before reading, you rip it open. “Dear Author,” it typically begins, if you’re lucky enough to get that personal of a greeting. The rest of what is usually a short note can be reduced to one disemboweling, blood-soaked word: REJECTED! Read more…
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