Charles Bukowski poem and story database

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook

Published in 2008 by City Lights Books

Aftermath Of A Lengthy Rejection Slip - pg. 1 - circa 1944
20 Tanks From Kasseldown - pg. 11 - circa 1946
Hard Without Music - pg. 15 - circa 1948
Trace: Editors Write - pg. 19
Portions From A Wine-Stained Notebook - pg. 20 - circa 1960
A Rambling Essay On Poetics And The Bleeding Life Written While Drinking A Six-Pack (Tall) - pg. 33 - circa 1965
In Defense Of A Certain Type Of Poetry. A Certain Type Of Life. A Certain Type Of Blood-Filled Creature Who Will Someday Die - pg. 41 - circa 1966
Artaud Anthology - pg. 49
An Old Drunk Who Ran Out Of Luck - pg. 54 - 1967
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 57 - circa 1967
Untitled Essay In A Tribute To Jim Lowell - pg. 61
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 63 - circa 1968
The Night Nobody Believed I Was Allen Ginsberg - pg. 70
Should We Burn Uncle Sam's Ass? - pg. 78 - circa 1970
The Silver Christ Of Santa Fe - pg. 82 - 1971
Dirty Old Man Confesses - pg. 87
Reading And Breeding For Kenneth - pg. 105 - 1971
Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The L.A. Scene - pg. 111
Notes On The Life Of An Aged Poet - pg. 121 - 1972
Upon The Mathematics Of The Breath And The Way - pg. 128 - circa 1973
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 135 - 1973
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 141 - circa 1974
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 144 - circa 1974
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 148 - 1974
Unpublished Foreword To William Wantling's 7 On Style - pg. 151
Jaggernaut - pg. 156 - 1975
Picking The Horses - pg. 162
Workout - pg. 169
The Way It Happened - pg. 181
Just Passing Time - pg. 188
Distraction In The Literary Life - pg. 197
I Meet The Master - pg. 205
Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles For Li Po - pg. 230
Looking Back At A Big One - pg. 231
Another Portfolio - pg. 234 - manuscript - 1990
The Other - pg. 236
Basic Training - pg. 249