Living on Luck by Charles Bukowski & Seamus Cooney

Author:Charles Bukowski & Seamus Cooney [Bukowski, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Letters
ISBN: 0876859821
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 1995-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The book being referred to in the following is Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck, published June 1972.

[To John Martin]

February 6, 1972

[***] I’ve done ten of the drawings for our book of poems. I don’t say much about it but each time a book comes out I get just as excited as the first time. I don’t suppose this is very professional, but isn’t this what it’s about? I mean, a book, a tabulation? it makes it much easier to die, somehow, except you don’t want to die because you want to do more. getting published in the magazines doesn’t raise up much in me, but a book is holy [sic] another matter. I have a feeling that this book of poems will be the best. I warm up all through the arms and chest and belly thinking about it.

[***] this is a difficult life—because I am more open to things that happen—but compared to the Post Office and the hundred other jobs, it’s life lighting up near the end, and it’s worth it all—the gamble, the doubt; at least when I get my lazy ass up and at it, my energy is going where my feelings are, and there’s no way of short-selling a value like that. Cheer up, Sparrow. [***]

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