CHARLES BUKOWSKI EPIC GLOTTIS: HIS ART & HIS WOMEN (& ME) by Joan Jobe Smith

Book cover featuring a drawing of Charles Bukowski and Joan Jobe Smith

In Charles Bukowski Epic Glottis, award-winning author Joan Jobe Smith — a Pushcart Honoree — shares up-close, personal recollections of her mentor and friend, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994).

The book also features remembrances and comments from women in Bukowski's life — including Frances Dean Smith (francEyE), Ann Menebroker, Linda King, and Pamela "Cupcakes" Miller Wood — in interviews conducted by Joan Jobe Smith and poet/author Fred Voss. This years-in-the-making volume also includes poetry, essays, and other writings by Smith and Voss.

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JOAN JOBE SMITH

is a founding editor of Pearl and Bukowski Review who also worked for seven years as a go-go dancer before receiving her B.A. from California State University Long Beach and MFA from the University of California Irvine.

A Pushcart Honoree, her award-winning work has appeared internationally in more than 500 publications, including Outlaw Bible, Ambit, Beat Scene, Wormwood Review and Nerve Cowboy — and she has published 20 collections, including Jehovah Jukebox (Event Horizon Press, US) and The Pow Wow Cafe (The Poetry Business, UK), finalist for the UK 1999 Forward Prize.

In July 2012, with her husband, poet Fred Voss, she did her sixth reading tour of England (debuting at the 1991 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival), featured at the Humber Mouth Literature Festival in Hull. In 2013, World Parade Books will release her memoir Tales of an Ancient Go-Go Girl.

The poems of Joan Jobe Smith have the reality of force properly put down on paper…a game girl…she cuts herself loose into the stratosphere…a strange woman, a strange, good, basic woman."
CHARLES BUKOWSKI