Charles bukowski who is jane

Charles Bukowski despite kind of being a misogynistic womanizer had just done it in 76 words. We lay there together, Bukowski and I, staring at the ceiling while the tigers licked our feet. I presume this feeling is familiar to all self-proclaimed "obsessed" creatives. It's the way the painter sits in front of a Monet painting, lost for hours in his brushstrokes.

It's the way the chef crinkles fresh herbs in his fingers and sticks them out beneath your nose, like a bridge to a heaven only he can see. It's the way my father puts his hand on his heart when he hears "Edelweiss," pledging allegiance to a previous life of listening to music with my mother.

It's the feeling that someone else has just done it for you—pulled back The Curtain and revealed the whole world. Is there any greater relief? What "For Jane" is to me is not what "For Jane" will be for everyone, just as the Monet painting, though I can appreciate it, does not exactly do for me what it does for the painter.

Many people don't have a Jane of their own. They might try on Bukowski's offered experience of grief and see a tigerless room.

But in reading his poem, I found understanding. I could finally see the beasts that had followed me into loss, and just in seeing them, just in being able to acknowledge their presence, just in finally putting my finger on them, they grew soft. And isn't what all artists seek to do? Marina being Smith's fifth daughter, but Bukowski's only child.

When he found out Francis was pregnant, Bukowski asked her to marry him, but she turned him down. Smith died after complications from a hip fracture in in Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California, early on June 2, Poet and sculptor who had a tempestuous relationship with Bukowski for nearly 5 years during the early s.

Probably the most volatile of the Bukowski girlfriends. She and he got together after King asked Bukowski if she could make a sculpture of his head. Their relationship was on-off and whenever they fell out, Bukowski would return the head to Linda. The turbulence of their affair could sometimes spill over into violence with Bukowski breaking her nose on one occasion. After an argument over his infidelity, King threw his typewriter and books out into the street.

Ex-girlfriend of rock drummer, Levon Helm. The experience made her so nauseous, she puked up afterwards. Bukowski developed an infatuation for her, but she would disappear for days at a time, which drove him crazy. He wrote about her in his poetry collection, Love is a Dog from Hell. She left him for a dental student. The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love.

The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. Pseudonym of a woman who had regular trysts with Bukowski during the s. She got her own back by writing her own book about him entitled, Blowing My Hero. She was working in a health food shop when he met her. They argued a lot, but Bukowski appreciated that she cared about him.

He gave up his crazy women, bought a house in San Pedro with his writing royalties and married her. Life with the volatile Bukowski wasn't always easy, as Barbet Schroeder's clip above shows. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts. I can believe it! The mystery of Jane C. Cooney Baker. Thread starter Petey Start date Apr 30, Petey RIP. Baker and Jane C. Cooney dated 13th July of According to Sounes in " Locked in the Arms And I was wondering about the note of " divorced " and " number of marriage: 2nd " Anyone here to bring some light into the dark? But anyway, it seems that the right column shows her original handwriting and signature which makes the whole thing a bit romantic for me It was Jane , the big love of this life Her grave in L.

There aren't many answers really - either she didn't marry Craig Baker in did you look at New Mexico marriage records? It's interesting that the Bakers lived on S. Union Drive in , then Bukowski moved there in right before meeting her. I assume she was still living there, or nearby, at that point. If she or Bukowski had moved somewhere else they probably would have never met. Though I imagine he would have been drawn to someone else who was a lot like her. Easier to read version of your document:.

I was always disappointed that there is only one photograph, even with her life of the periphery. Certainly there are more out there - and as interest in Bukowski grows more books, deeper research , I'm sure they will be found attic somewhere. Johannes Founding member.

Certainly there are more out there. Johannes said:. I didn't know that. What happened to Craig Baker? I remember reading somewhere Sounes? The biographers Sounes,Cherkovski.. Not sure why there's a discrepancy there. Bukowski didn't mention either one, so I may have got Glenwood from some Los Angeles research. Or it may just be a typo. If I can't find any reason for Glenwood I'll change it to Glenview. I'll see if I can find anything around here that would explain the difference.

Found another proof for this fact as mentioned in the timeline: "While biographers place their first meeting in , details in the unpublished novel Streetwalker suggest that it was actually " "Remains" by Charles Bukowski written in things are good as I am not dead yet and the rats move in the beercans, the papersacks shuffle like small dogs, and her photographs are stuck onto a painting by a dead German and she too is dead and it took 14 years to know her and if they give me another 14 I will know her yet This is my favorite Jane poem.

Jane died in Deduct 14 years and here we go to Guys, I would give my right arm for the god damn photo s. Last edited: May 18, Well, there you go, that must be where it came from, since there's no mention online anyway of a Glenwood or a Glenview bar on or around Alvarado, so I used what he wrote.

Of course he fictionalized names too, so it could still be Glenview. I'd like to be able to find a record of the joint either way. As far as placing the year as , I used the bit where she complained about getting on the bus at 7th and Alvarado and he said he only lived a few blocks from there.

That would mean he lived on Union, and that wasn't until though he was also "a few blocks away" in a different place on Union in In he was on Figueroa and in Philadelphia , both far from 7th and Alvarado. Petey said:. I even have her voice on tape Last edited: May 22, Is the poem above from New York Quarterly or from one of the posthumous collections?

Historical Society" regarding my Jane research anyway, so I asked them today for an addional job.