Me and your sometimes love poems

MINT in illustrated blue paper wraps. This is 214/500 copies numbered and innitaled by King.

Linda King was the woman in Buk''s novel WOMEN who tried to run over him with a Volkswagen. She also sculpted his head in bronze. So she tried to kill him then made him immortal (at least his head!). If that''s not real love for a man then I guess I don''t know what true love is. In her fifties, she now lives and works a shit job in Phoenix, AZ. She''s slowly but surely writing her own book about Bukowski, about their years together in the early to mid-70s. She told me in a letter dated February 25, 1997: "I have been rewriting the first part of my Bukowski book. I think I improved it quite a bit in the rewrite but now I''m back to plowing ground again...with nothing but my old mule. It''s slow going, but I am keeping my mind on the harvest...the harvest..." She then sent me this letter dated April 17, 1995: John Martin (of Black Sparrow Press) hasn''t contacted me about (publishing) my (Bukowski) book. What he wants is Bukowski''s love letters to me. He wants me to just give them to him for the honor of being published, I guess. No, really, when John Martin hears I am writing a book he writes and tells me what I can''t write. He tried to kill it. John Martin said he is the only one who has the rights to publish Bukowski''s letters. I told him I thought since I inspired the letters I ought to make some money off them. Not just Bukowski''s wife (Linda Lee), or him, since he already has a lot of money (from publishing Buk''s books). I don''t have a publisher or anyone trying to get the rights. I''m not trying to get one right now. I want to write the book first. I''m not sure I can write it. I want something to sell first.

From: http://www.anti-heroart.com/king.html

Reviewer: Tim Olson (Los Angeles, CA) - Amazon
Linda King was Bukowski''s girlfriend in the 70s (showing up as "Lydia" in Bukowski''s novel WOMEN) -- and this book was project they worked on together, originally self-published. This version I have (reprinted in 1974) has comic drawings by Bukowski. Mostly I love this book because...of course, it''s connected to Buk! Anyway, if you can find a copy, check it out!