Share <Embed>

FREE delivery: Tuesday, Sep 8 on your first order.

Fastest delivery: Thursday, Sep 3 Details

Only 3 left in stock - order soon.
As an alternative, the Kindle eBook is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app.

Secure transaction

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Return policy: Returnable within 30 days of receipt

Add gift options

Used: Good | Details

Sold by Goodwill Southern California

Other Sellers on Amazon

Add to Cart

$20.83
+ $3.99 shipping

Sold by: ---SuperBookDeals

Add to Cart

$24.83
+ Free Shipping

Sold by: TheWorldShop

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 3 images

Follow the Author

Charles Bukowski

Beerspit Night and Cursing : the Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967 Paperback – April 1, 2001

by Charles Bukowski (Author), Sheri Martinelli (Author), Steven Moore (Editor)

7 ratings

See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$6.99

—

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$50.00

$34.98

Paperback

"Please retry"

$17.00

$8.55

Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski—America's "Ultimate Outsider"

Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation
Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted
Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize.

Sheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.

Frequently bought together

Total price: $28.99

One of these items ships sooner than the other. Show details

Buy the selected items together

This item:Beerspit Night and Cursing : the Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967 by Charles Bukowski Paperback $17.00
Only 3 left in stock - order soon.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski Paperback $11.99
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Customers who bought this item also bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Charles Bukowski

9

Hardcover
7 offers from $20.17
Charles Bukowski

74

Paperback
$12.89
Charles Bukowski

32

Paperback
$12.99
Only 2 left in stock (more on the way).
Charles Bukowski

66

Hardcover
$16.99
Charles Bukowski

36

Paperback
$13.69
Only 1 left in stock (more on the way).
Charles Bukowski

35

Paperback
$13.39
Only 3 left in stock (more on the way).

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

Product details

Item Weight : 1.07 pounds
Paperback : 380 pages
ISBN-10 : 1574231502
ISBN-13 : 978-1574231502
Product Dimensions : 6 x 1.1 x 8.9 inches
Publisher : Ecco (April 1, 2001)
Language: : English

Best-sellers rank #1,415,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#1,411 in Literary Letters
#1,413 in Historical Germany Biographies
#2,864 in American Fiction Anthologies

Customer Reviews:
7 ratings

Start reading on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Customer reviews

5 star		41%
4 star		29%
3 star		21%
2 star 0% (0%)		0%
1 star		8%

How are ratings calculated?

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Keith Nichols

Slow going, but worth it for Bukowski fans

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2001

Verified Purchase

You can't critique a collection of someone's letters on the same basis you would their published public works. But in this volume, the first thing you might wonder is why two articulate people chose to affect such an inarticulate, though sometimes inventive, style. All collections of Bukowski letters contain many cryptic and rambling missives of this sort, and I suppose they may be excused as the unedited utterings of a drunk and/or hung-over mind. But I'm led to believe that Bukowski produced a lot of work in that condition, including his better-crafted stories; so why must the letters be so sloppy? Even as first drafts, they're a bit much. And why Ms. Martinelli chose to emulate this style is another question, unless of course she was similarly indisposed. Maybe it was an accepted literary style in the '60s. At any rate, it makes the book a slow slog, although some new insights into Bukowski's nature and ideas may be winnowed with diligent application. Like many of the Bukowski-related volumes, this one seems to be more for the fan and collector than for the casual reader. There are a few photos of the two authors in the center of the book. Black Sparrow Press did its usual commendable job of design and production.

13 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Mark B.

Interesting, but Hard to Read.

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2001

BEERSPIT NIGHT is an interesting entry into the volumes of Bukowski letters published by Black Sparrow. This is a venture between two people who were involved with Bukowski and Martinelli professionally and personally: John Martin, publisher of BSP, and Steven Moore, the editor of this book, respectively. The correspondence is lively, Bukowski seems to have met his match, and enlightening. Bukowski, as Moore states, reveals more of his artistic and literary leanings with Martinelli than he did with anyone else he exchanged missives with (Martin and Bukowski's widow may be the only other people to have seen this side of him). The book appears to have been a labor-of-love for Moore, who knew Martinelli, and Martin shows his usual loving care with this book as he has with every other Buk book. The only problem I have encountered so far (at only 1/4 of the way through) is Moore's decision to leave much of the original purposeful misspellings and colloquialisms of both Bukowski and Martinelli. It becomes quite tiresome, like spending hours trying to solve word problems. And, for some reason the footnotes are not numbered, so many a reader may actually pass them over not realizing they're there. Those who think they know everything about Bukowski might discover some revelations in these letters.

8 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

SPM

Not essential

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2003

Black Sparrow is digging deep into the heap of leftovers to come up with some "new" Bukowski. This is the worst after-he-died book to be released. Almost all of the letters are by Bukowski. That's a relief because Sheri Martinelli's letters are unreadable. The spelling, punctuation, and stream of consciousness writing style make her letters impenetrable.
Bukowski's letters are readable, but he's too young here to have much to say. Frankly, Bukowski's early work is pretty weak. It wasn't until the late 1970s that he became the great writer we know and love. Here, he picks up on Martinelli's racism, runs with it halfheartedly, and praises her for no reason. The letters are very drunk and usually pointless. Some of the angry wisdom shines through, but not much. This is a book for diehard Bukowski fans only. It's a bad representation of his work.

13 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Top international reviews

Alan David Gutiérrez Aguirre

Amazing book.

Reviewed in Mexico on June 15, 2019

Verified Purchase

This is a amazing book because it shows a Bukowski is not in his novel. It is nor ruled out for fan.

Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

the dude

Three Stars

Reviewed in Canada on March 12, 2017

Verified Purchase

no problem

Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

You've read the top international reviews

See all reviews from the United States

Buy new: $17.00

Buy used: $8.55

Other Sellers on Amazon

Follow the Author

Similar authors to follow

Beerspit Night and Cursing : the Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967 Paperback – April 1, 2001

Frequently bought together

Customers who bought this item also bought

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Product details

Customer reviews

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top international reviews

You've read the top international reviews

Buy new:

$17.00

Buy used:

$8.55