She also has written seven collections of poetry: King wrote a book Loving and Hating Bukowski. King has also sold an edition of at least 15 bronzes of Bukowski. Her play, Singing Bullets, was staged as part of a showcase by Phoenix's Metro Arts Institute. In addition to her bust of Bukowski, King also sculpted busts of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Micheline, Harold Norse, and A. In September 2009, she was one of the three poets in the presentation, Tales of Bukowski & the Late 1960s LA Poetry Scene: A Reading & Report by Key Poet/Participants at Bird & Beckett Books & Records in San Francisco. The same year, in order to be nearer to her grandchildren, King moved from Phoenix into an apartment in the Sunset District of San Francisco. In 2009, she sold 60 love letters written to her by Bukowski at auction in San Francisco's PBA Galleries. In 2004, Phoenix's Paper Heart Gallery featured her paintings, busts and poems, along with documentary films about Bukowski, in a show entitled, Friends and Foes of Charles Bukowski. One in particular, printed in 1997, references Bukowski: "I am the woman who knows for sure that Bukowski's balls were bigger I am the woman who knows that he liked hot chilies in his stew". She sold her own traditional portrait busts in clay, and published poems. She worked as a bartender, waitress, and, as a part-time care-giver for the elderly. Who does that unless they really want to make you mad? After Bukowski It's that he always wanted me to know about them, always wanted to tell me all the details about what they did together. The same year, King left Los Angeles for Phoenix, because of what she described as "one extended nervous breakdown". The incident is detailed in Bukowski's novel, Women, whose leading character, Lydia Vance, is based on King. īukowski and King finally split up for good in 1975, when one night an intoxicated King threw Bukowski's typewriter and books onto the street, angry at his infidelities. īukowski's first stage debut was as an actor in King’s play Only a Tenant in which she and Bukowski stage-read the first act at the Pasadena Museum of the Artist. By the following morning there was a broken window and a panel smashed in the door, and King had disappeared. On another occasion, King and Bukowski were accommodated at the City Lights apartment in San Francisco, after a reading at the City Lights Poets Theater. On one occasion in 1971, Bukowski broke her nose during an argument. The relationship has been documented as volatile, turbulent and even physically abusive. King was 30 years old and Bukowski was about 20 years her senior when they started their relationship. He accepted her offer, and they soon became romantically involved. In 1970, shortly after the end of her marriage, King met Charles Bukowski and offered to make a sculpture of his head. King was an actress before she became a sculptor and poet. During the 1970s, King edited the literary magazine, Purr. Marrying early in life, the union ended in divorce after 10 years. Personal life īorn in 1940, King grew up in Boulder, Utah. She is best known for having been the girlfriend of American writer Charles Bukowski for several years in the early 1970s. Linda King (born 1940) is an American sculptor, playwright and poet. For the professor of virology, see Linda King (virologist). Review of Linda King's Loving and Hating Charles B.For the Hong Kong bowls player, see Linda King (bowls).The Miracle of Three Avocados by Gordon Gross.Jack Kerouac in today's Peanuts cartoon?.Some insights from Sam Riley on playing Jack Kerouac.Desolation Adventure: video from KCTS9 about Kerou.Rotten Tomatoes rating of On the Road so far.Merry Christmas and a thought from Jack Kerouac.
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