“You don’t need to be a fan of Charles Bukowski to love this book. It is a tour de force of life in Los Angeles in the mid 1970s, and it is an endearing and amusing commentary on the sometimes crazy and dysfunctional nature of romantic relationships.” –Bob Taylor
While I am busy taking photos to document the occasion for posterity, Bob has already finished the first chapter describing Georgia and Cupcakes’ search for Buk’s home.
In 1976 Charles Bukowski published the book “Scarlet” containing poems celebrating his love for Pamela “Cupcakes” Wood. This is a photo of the inscription Charles Bukowski wrote in Pam’s copy of the book.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI’S SCARLET
A Memoir
By Pamela “Cupcakes” Wood
Will be released May 1, 2010
“It began as a whim” —an impulsive meeting between the iconic Charles Bukowski and his famed muse, Pamela “Cupcakes” Wood and led to a two-year relationship that Wood chronicles in this straightforward memoir. Her story is refreshingly blunt as she details their often ridiculous, yet charming relationship.
This is a Bukowski enthusiast’s dream—a total immersion into his life with the independent and spirited “Scarlet,” the woman he wrote about in the book of the same name, plus many poems. She appears as “Tammie” in Bukowski’s book Women.
Who is Scarlet? What was the powerful chemistry between Bukowski and the woman whose identity intrigued so many?
Written with engaging wit, this is an insightful, honest recollection of their life together: loving, humorous, complicated and, at times, outrageous. We see Buk as a gifted, flawed man and glimpse his simmering violence when under the influence of alcohol, yet we appreciate him for his deeply sensitive and compassionate underlying nature.
“. . . This is the real deal. Well-written, vivid and moving. While reading it I felt as though I was there in the living room with her and Bukowski.” —Dan Fante, author of 86’d and Chump Change
“. . . Scarlet reminds the reader of why they admire Charles Bukowski, deepening their understanding of a complex and ultimately loveable personality.” —Howard Sounes, author of the classic Bukowski biography Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
BUY THIS BOOK:
from Sun Dog Press
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Trade Paperback, 240 pages —$15.95
6″ x 9″ — ISBN 9780941543583
BukCalledHerScarlet.com is a fansite, dedicated to the book CHARLES BUKOWSKI'S SCARLET by Pamela "Cupcakes O'Brien" "Tammie" "Scarlet" Wood.
For a time in the early 1970s, Pamela shared her life with the poet and writer, Charles Bukowski. Her memoir, "Charles Bukowski's Scarlet" is a chronicle of those times.
And they were tumultous times indeed. The women who came of age during those years form a powerful sisterhood.
We are now business owners and home owners, and mothers and grandmothers, but for a brief time in the late 1960s and early 1970s we ran barefoot in the grass, with flowers in our hair. We strummed guitars or belted out the blues.
It was the era of Free Speech and Free Love and we drank deeply of both.
Decades have passed, but our treasured memories have not dimmed, and the hope and the promise of those years still burns in our hearts.
We may be older, but we are filled with a joy that can only be known by those who have lived life fully and well.
This site is for Pam, Keep On Truckin', Girlfriend.
