All’s Normal Here: Signed by Charles Bukowski

This is a signed copy of All’s Normal Here, published in 1985 by Loss Glazier’s Rudy Duck Press. This appears to be a one-off Bukowski signature and NOT one of the 27 numbered copies signed by both Bukowski and Glazier. I have not seen another one like it.

Spanning 110 pages, this is a large format (8.5"x 10.75"), perfect-bound book that contains a number of drawings by Bukowski, as well as 14 pieces by him, including poems, letters, and essays.·  

• A Poem Is A City
• About The Love Poems Of The Cat
• Barred From The Polo Lounge
• Here I Am
• Poem For My 43rd Birthday
• Rhyming Poem
• Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer
• Style
• The House
• Upon The Mathematics Of The Breath And The Way

Other pieces range from assessments and testimonies to tributes and poems by Bukowski associates like Hugh Fox, Jack Micheline, Marvin Malone, Gerald Locklin, A.D. Winans, David Barker, Charles Potts, Ann Menebroker, Al Fogel and many more.

Unlike some books, the writings about Bukowski are fairly interesting. Of the 110 pages of content, 90 percent is well worth reading, including a small piece on LouJon press and a bitter little note from John Martin.

The Bukowski letters are replicated in full, unlike the edited-down versions that were included in the later compilations.

Due to the black covers with a heavy coating, it has the typical white creases and scratches on the covers and edges. Still, the covers are better than many copies I’ve seen and the interior pages are clean and white.

All in all, Very Good ++.

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