BUKOWSKI: BACK TO THE MACHINEGUN, Volume 1, 1959-1974

There are three volumes in this series, each of which contain a large number of Bukowski poems, with this volume running close to 275 pages. The origin of the series is unclear, as there is no information provided regarding the publisher.

Legend has it that a group of outlaw publishers that go by the name the “Prague Collective” produced it out of Eastern Europe. All that is provided is the year of publication for Volume 1, which is said to have been 2011.

There is a preface, which reads:

“The poems in this book were transcribed directly from the original manuscripts typed by Charles Bukowski. These volumes were created in an effort to preserve the original writing, which is in danger of being lost to all but the small handful of scholars and collectors who are able to view the poem manuscripts.

During his lifetime, relatively little editing was done to Bukowski’s poems in the Black Sparrow Press collections. However, the poetry collections published by Black Sparrow Press and HarperCollins/Ecco subsequent to Bukowski’s death in 1994 differ – sometimes in very significant ways – from the manuscripts versions of the work. The rewriting of his work in the posthumous poetry collections greatly diminishes Bukowski’s singular voice.

Here then, are the unmolested words of one of the 20^th century’s greatest poets. Let him speak for himself.”

This copy is as New.

The poems in Volume 1 include:

• Caught Again At Some Impossible Pass - pg. 3 - manuscript - 1959
• The Damnation of Recognition - pg. 4 - manuscript - 1962
• The Death Of A Bee In The Grass Along Mariposa Avenue - pg. 5 - manuscript - 1962
• To Jane Cooney Baker, Died 1-22-62 - pg. 6 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - circa 1969
• 9-23-63 - pg. 8 - manuscript - 1963
• To The Academians, And Those First Box Front, Opera - pg. 11 - manuscript - 1964
• Dust Suds Dust Dissertation - pg. 12 - manuscript - 1966
• The Drowning Of The Ants - pg. 15 - manuscript - 1968
• Toy Christ - pg. 17 - manuscript - circa 1964-1968
• Get The Nose - pg. 20 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1968
• HOW LONG DOES LOVE STAY GREEN? (as long as the money lasts) - pg. 22 - manuscript - 1965
• Rest You Merry Gentlemen And Rest You Merry Whores And Let The Lamplights Light - pg. 25 - manuscript - 1966
• All the Love of Me Goes Out to Her (for A.M.) - pg. 28 - manuscript - 1969
• 1926 Dodge, Tijuana - pg. 30 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• The Palmleaves Of California - pg. 32 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Only The Truly Lost - pg. 34 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• The Scene - pg. 36 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Now The Professors - pg. 37 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• T.H.I.A.L.H. - pg. 40 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Poem For An X-Bank Clerk - pg. 41 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Early Morning Beer And Not Much Else - pg. 42 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• The Heart's Riot - pg. 43 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• To A Girl In March Wind With Pure Wonderment Of Thigh Calve And Knee - pg. 45 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Doom Like Those Large Red Lights You Suddenly See In The Overhead Mirror - pg. 46 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Baby Needs A New Castle In Switzerland - pg. 47 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Graditude - pg. 49 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Looking For Jack Micheline - pg. 50 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Ice - pg. 52 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Poem To Yevtushkenko - pg. 53 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• Rolled Again - pg. 59 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• That Liberating Movement - pg. 61 - manuscript - circa 1965-1970
• Society Should Realize - pg. 62 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• The Girl Outside The Supermarket - pg. 64 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
• A Need For Glue - pg. 65 - manuscript - 1971 - circa 1970
• The Creation Of The Morning Line - pg. 66 - manuscript - 1972
• Down On The Row - pg. 67 - manuscript - 1971
• Old Age - pg. 68 - manuscript - 1971
• Poem For An Errand Boy In The Year 1941 - pg. 69 - manuscript - 1971
• The Game-Players - pg. 71 - manuscript - 1971
• When The Violets Roar At The Sun They'll Set Us Free - pg. 73 - manuscript - 1971
• Venice, Calif. - pg. 74 - manuscript - 1971
• I Met This Woman - pg. 76 - manuscript - 1971
• Work-Fuck Problems - pg. 78 - manuscript - 1971
• Crowds - pg. 81 - manuscript - 1971
• My Literary Fly - pg. 84 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1971
• Song For This Softly-Sweeping Sorrow - pg. 86 - manuscript - 1971
• The Chicken - pg. 87 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1971
• A Very Dramatic Man - pg. 89 - manuscript - 1971
• A Well-Known Poet And Myself - pg. 90 - manuscript - circa 1971-1972 - circa 1971
• The Bells - pg. 92 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• Tonight - pg. 94 - manuscript - 1972
• The End - pg. 95 - manuscript - 1972
• (untitled) - pg. 96 - manuscript - 1972
• On The Sidewalk And In The Sun - pg. 97 - 1972
• The Gigolo - pg. 99 - manuscript - 1972
• Back Ups - pg. 102 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• Moons Of Honey Drown The Lark Hahaha - pg. 103 - manuscript - 1972
• Crime and Punishment - pg. 105 - manuscript - 1972
• The Ordinary Cafe Of The World - pg. 107 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• Crickets - pg. 109 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• Wide And Revolving - pg. 111 - manuscript - 1972
• Artistic Selfishness, Yes, I Have It - pg. 112 - manuscript - 1972
• A Cop-Out To A Possible Immortality - pg. 113 - manuscript - 1972
• The Triangle - pg. 114 - manuscript - 1972
• There's People In Places Where Snow Lives - pg. 115 - manuscript - 1972
• The Angel Who Pushed His Wheelchair - pg. 116 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• This Drunk - pg. 119 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• Born To Lose - pg. 121 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• Girls Coming Home In Their Cars - pg. 123 - manuscript - 1972
• Round Trip - For T.H. - pg. 125 - manuscript - 1972
• Daylight Saving - pg. 127 - manuscript - 1972
• Yes, Yes - pg. 128 - manuscript - 1972
• Fast Track - pg. 129 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• 200 Yards From The Surf - pg. 131 - manuscript - 1972
• A Great Man Speaks Of Great Men - pg. 133 - manuscript - 1972
• Robinson Jeffers And Love - pg. 136 - manuscript - 1972
• I Can't See Anything - pg. 137 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
• My Hump-Backed Laughing Soul - pg. 138 - manuscript - 1972
• A Critic - pg. 139 - manuscript - 1972
• The Reason - pg. 140 - manuscript - 1972
• Piss - pg. 142 - manuscript - 1972
• Woman In The Supermarket - pg. 144 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
• Demise - pg. 149 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
• Drunk And Listening To Some English Marches On The Radio While Far Away From You - pg. 150 - manuscript - 1973
• The Arcade Room - pg. 152 - manuscript - 1973
• Panties - pg. 154 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
• It Will Come On Padded Feet Carrying Roses, Wine And The Yellow Pages In Its Mouth - pg. 159 - manuscript - 1973
• No Bra, No Panties - pg. 160 - manuscript - 1973
• Something About A Cat - pg. 163 - manuscript - 1973
• 200 Years - pg. 164 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
• She Lost Weight - pg. 168 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
• Vegetables - pg. 168 - manuscript - 1973
• The Copulation Blues - pg. 170 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
• The Lambs Of Laughter - pg. 171 - manuscript - 1973
• My Comrades - pg. 173 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
• Overtime - pg. 176 - manuscript - 1973
• The Police Helicopter - pg. 177 - manuscript - 1973
• Big Grey Balloon Things, Heavy - pg. 179 - manuscript - 1973
• Hooked - pg. 181 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
• Did You Ever Think About That? - pg. 183 - manuscript - 1973
• The Boy In Red For A 20 - pg. 184 - manuscript - 1974
• 2,294 - pg. 186 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
• A Plausible Finish - pg. 187 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
• An Afternoon In Mid-February - pg. 189 - manuscript - 1974
• Dig Me A Ditch - pg. 191 - manuscript - 1974
• One Hundred Dollars - pg. 195 - manuscript - 1974
• A Confession - pg. 196 - manuscript - 1974
• While Sitting In A Bar On Sunset Boulevard - pg. 198 - manuscript - 1974
• The Midnight Dip - pg. 199 - manuscript - 1974
• Rubber - pg. 200 - manuscript - 1974
• Advice - pg. 202 - manuscript - 1974
• All You Need - pg. 204 - manuscript - 1974
• Mice - pg. 206 - manuscript - 1974
• D.N.F. - pg. 208 - manuscript - 1974
• Extant - pg. 209 - manuscript - 1974
• Help Wanted - pg. 212 - manuscript - 1974
• To Weep In Her Hair - pg. 213 - manuscript - 1974
• Mother - pg. 215 - manuscript - 1974
• Insomnia - pg. 217 - manuscript - 1974
• Teeth - pg. 218 - manuscript - 1974
• The Bells Of The Condom - pg. 219 - manuscript - 1974
• No Cagney, Me - pg. 221 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
• Where Are You? - pg. 223 - manuscript - 1974
• It Comes From Somewhere - pg. 225 - manuscript - 1974
• 2 Horse Collars - pg. 226 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
• How Good Sleep Is Before Having To Walk Down Any Street - pg. 228 - manuscript - 1974
• The Sun Itself, I Guess, Is The Only Thing That Doesn't Need The Love Of Luck - pg. 230 - manuscript - 1974
• The Fulfillment - pg. 235 - manuscript - 1974
• August - pg. 238 - manuscript - 1974
• Love - pg. 239 - manuscript - 1974
• The Mad Poet - pg. 247 - manuscript - 1974
• Rosary For A Once Tenderness - pg. 248 - manuscript - 1974
• A Love Poem - pg. 249 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
• Apprentices - pg. 252 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
• Free - pg. 254 - manuscript - 1974
• Let's Be Original - pg. 256 - manuscript - 1974
• Like A Movie - pg. 257 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
• Guru - pg. 259 - manuscript - 1974
• My Ol' Drinking Buddies - pg. 260 - manuscript - 1974
• Cloud 9 - pg. 262 - manuscript - 1974
• A Song To The Glorious Lonely - pg. 263 - manuscript - 1974
• An Old Fan - pg. 264 - manuscript - 1974
• Flashing White Teeth - pg. 265 - manuscript - 1974
• Butterflies - pg. 266 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
• Blinks A Little Spot Of Senseless Yellow In The Middle Of It All - pg. 268 - manuscript - 1974
• Hitler's Mama - pg. 269 - manuscript - 1974
• Feed Time - pg. 270 - manuscript - 1974
• A Poem For The Swingers, A Poem For The Playgirls Of The Universe - pg. 272 - manuscript - 1974
• I Meet A Vegetarian - pg. 273 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974