Scott C. Holstad Poet and Essayist

Scott Holstad

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Author Biography

Scott C. Holstad was born in Boston and has lived all over the North American continent. He holds degrees from the University of Tennessee, California State University Long Beach, and Queens University of Charlotte.
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Influences

Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Bill Shields, Kenneth Patchen

Favorite Books

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, A Coney Island of the Mind, On The Road, Naked Lunch, The Firebird Poems, The Stranger, The Fall

Favorite Authors

Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Bill Shields, Albert Camus

What I'm Reading

The Pleasures of the Damned by Bukowski, Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America by Smith, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook by Bukowski, Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems by Locklin, The Continual Condition by Bukowski

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Bukowski's Famous FrancEyE, Mother of his Daughter, dies at age 87

by Scott C. Holstad

June 24, 2009, 3:30 am

Santa Monica poet and mother to Marina Bukowski, Charles Bukowski's only child, Frances Dean Smith (FrancEyE) died a couple of weeks ago at age 87. She was popularized by Bukowski as "Old Snaggle-Tooth" in at least one of his poems.

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Bob Levin says:

Thanks for posting that

Thanks for posting that link. I forwarded it to a couple people I thought would be interested.

Wed, 06/24/2009 - 7:08am

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