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Black Sparrow's first book was by a hard-drinking roustabout, Charles Bukowski. Says Martin: "He was the kind of guy that drank in sailors' bars, got into fights with everyone in the room and wound up drinking alone with everyone stretched out on the floor." Between bouts Bukowski wrote terse, explicit poetry and fiction in the self-advertising style of Henry Miller ("The young coeds came up with their hot young bodies and their pilot- light eyes . . ."). Martin offered to pay the author $100 a month if he would quit his postal worker's job and work full time...
...called At Terror Street and Agony Way, and the account of a disorderly life in Los Angeles launched two careers: Bukowski's and Black Sparrow's. Since then Bukowski has produced 15 books. None have been American hits, but many have been best sellers in Europe. More than a million copies of his works are in print in at least a dozen languages; they account for about 40% of Black Sparrow's $750,000 sales volume...
...best measure of personal stress. By conducting a series of surveys, Psychologist Richard Lazarus, of the University of California at Berkeley, has become convinced that the everyday annoyances of life, or "hassles," contribute more to illness and depression than major life changes. Lazarus cites a poem by Charles Bukowski to illustrate his point...
MARTIN J. BUKOWSKI...
Small gradations within the overwhelming vote cast for leading Communist candidates showed how the Poles were thinking. In Warsaw's First District, for example, the highest vote (98.63%) was received by Professor Jerzy Bukowski, who had helped students organize a militia during the October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They...