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The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & the Second Coming Revolution (Hardcover)
by A. D. Winans (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 190 pages
  • Publisher: Dustbooks; 1st edition (May 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0916685950
  • ISBN-13: 978-0916685959
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews (3 customer reviews)
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book On Two Important US Poets, November 29, 2004
By Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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Have you been curious to find out how SF Beat poet A.D. Winans came to know the Los Angeles rabblerouser Charles Bukowski? In this book you can find out the whole in and out of their relationship, in which they were sort of like the Hemingway and FitzGerald of a nascent poetic movement which Winans has called, "The Second Coming Revolution," after his own magazine, the long-gone, and sadly missed, "Second Coming," which might be said to have started a revolution in letting the common people speak in the language of the human tongue. But maybe "revolution" is the wrong word. Plenty of fine photos stud this book, some of the talented San Francisco poet Harold Norse, and other figures around the legendary 50 year old bookstore City Lights on Columbus Avenue (San Francisco), where "Hank," as his intimates called Bukowski, made some of his most colorful public appearances. But A.D. Winans got to know "Hank" in private too, and some of the most telling stories in the book comcern the way Winans counts it up and realizes that actually, he only met with Bukowski a handful of times, and that he got to "know" him mostly through his letters and through his many volumes of verse.

There is also an explanation of why Winans is bitter today, for rightfully so he feels ignored, and plus he had a spiked drink some time ago and was jailed by malicious SF cops who put him in a cell with deadbeats and dangerous felons, and subjected him to a nude body search which was humiliating. But, he survived his ordeal and has since then written over two dozen books. Thought Bukowski is dead now, Winans lives on to dare to dream the visions of glory dreamt by the knights of the round table who wanted to find . . . "the HOLY GRAIL."
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & the Second Coming Revolution, June 12, 2006
I found this book hard to put down. Easily accessible in style, A.D. Winans describes the fifties-early sixties in San Francisco in a way that someone who wasn't there couldn't. In addition to vivid descriptions of his encounters and correspondence with Bukowski, he gives a picture of how different the small press for poetry was in those days. If someone is looking for a straight bio of Bukowski, the book makes no pretence at being that. Rather, it's a b