Editing Charles Bukowski (section)

=== 1960s ===
By 1960, Bukowski had returned to the post office in Los Angeles and began work as a letter filing clerk, a position he held for more than a decade. In 1962, he was distraught over the death of Jane Cooney Baker, his first serious girlfriend. Bukowski turned his inner devastation into a series of poems and stories lamenting her death.<ref name="Bukowski, Charles 2003 pp. 363">Bukowski, Charles ''Run with the hunted: a Charles Bukowski reader'', Edited by John Martin (Ecco, 2003), pp. 363–365</ref>

[[File:Bukowski Court, 5124 DeLongpre Avenue, Los Angeles.jpg|thumb|5124 DeLongpre Avenue, Los Angeles, now Bukowski Court, where Bukowski resided from 1963 to 1972]]
E.V. Griffith, editor of Hearse Press, published Bukowski's first separately printed publication, a broadside titled "His Wife, the Painter," in June 1960. This event was followed by Hearse Press's publication of "Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail," Bukowski's first [[chapbook]] of poems, in October 1960. "His Wife, the Painter" and three other broadsides ("The Paper on the Floor", "The Old Man on the Corner" and "Waste Basket") formed the centerpiece of Hearse Press's "Coffin 1", an innovative small-poetry publication consisting of a pocketed folder containing forty-two broadsides and [[lithograph]]s which was published in 1964. Hearse Press continued to publish poems by Bukowski through the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.<ref>''"Sheaf, Hearse, Coffin, Poetry NOW"'' by E.V. Griffith (Hearse Press, 1996), pp. 30, 32</ref>

Jon and Louise Webb, publishers of the literary magazine ''[[The Outsider (magazine)|The Outsider]]'', featured some of Bukowski's poetry in its pages. Under the Loujon Press imprint, the Webbs published Bukowski's ''It Catches My Heart in Its Hands'' in 1963 and ''Crucifix in a Deathhand'' in 1965.

In 1964 a daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski, was born to Bukowski and his live-in girlfriend [[FrancEyE|Frances Smith]]. She would be his only child.<ref name="Bukowski, Charles 2003 pp. 363"/>

Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column ''[[Notes of a Dirty Old Man]]'' for Los Angeles' ''[[Open City (newspaper)|Open City]]'', an underground newspaper. When ''Open City'' was shut down in 1969, the column was picked up by the ''[[Los Angeles Free Press]]'' as well as the hippie underground paper ''[[NOLA Express]]'' in [[New Orleans]]. In 1969, Bukowski and [[Neeli Cherkovski]] launched their own short-lived [[mimeograph]]ed literary magazine, ''[[Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns]]''. They produced three issues over the next two years.