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Slowed down by a busted hand. Reading instead of writing: Bukowski, Waters, Thompson. Letters, filth and spirit.

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Cover of Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960–1970 by Charles Bukowski, edited by Seamus Cooney. The worn white cover features Bukowski’s rough doodles of winged figures and a yellow sun, accented by a bold red streak. The words “crying now as I write this” appear scrawled in the corner—part artwork, part confession An inside page from Bukowski’s Screams from the Balcony, filled with his handwritten letter and black-ink sketches. A cartoon figure sits at a table beneath a shaded window; text curls along the outline of a drawn profile. The page feels half diary, half drunken prayer. Two paperbacks stacked on a striped towel. The top book is Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays by John Waters, its cover loud with pop-art circles showing a trailer, a pig, and a clock. Beneath it peeks The Door in the Floor: The Screenplay by Tom Perrotta and Tod Williams, with the faces of two actors framed close together. Screenshot of the Amazon page for Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson. The cover shows a striking ritual mask against a red background, text in bold serif type—an academic classic on art, movement, and lineage.
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM