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About Me

Born on January 30th, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington, little is known of my childhood but it is rumored it was a troubled one.
In 1955 I was arrested for throwing a rock through a police station window. I was cold and hungry, and did it in order to be sent to prison and fed. Instead I was sent to Oregon State Hospital and treated there with electroconvulsive therapy.
Somewhere around 1955-1958, I moved to San Francisco, California
In 1959, Lay the Marble Tea was published (my first published book?). This was a collection of 24 poems.
In the late 1960's, I began to gain popularity and during this time, published several of my most popular works (Trout Fishing in America, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, In Watermelon Sugar, etc.). During 1966-67, I served as the poet-in-residence at California Institute of Technology.
In 1972 or '73, I moves to Pine Creek, Montana and allegedly refused to give interviews or lecture for the next eight years.
In 1982, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is published. This will be my last published book because in 1984, I committed suicide. My body was discovered several weeks later on October 25, 1984. My 49-year-old body was found next to a bottle of alcohol and a .44 caliber gun. There was evidence that I died of a gunshot wound.

My Interests

Fishing, drinking, horseplay, love, Japan, computers, make believe, day dreaming, music

I'd like to meet:

Anyone and everyone.

Music:

recordings

Listening to Richard Brautigan (Harvest ST-424) 1973

Paradise Bar and Grill by Mad River features Brautigan reading Love's Not The Way To Treat A Friend to a musical backing.

Books:

Books
An Unfortunate Woman : A Journey (ISBN 0-312-262434) 2000
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings (ISBN 0-395-97469-0) 1999
Trout Fishing in America ( ISBN 440-09126) 1967
A Confederate General from Big Sur (ISBN 0-330-23565-6) 1964
In Watermelon Sugar (ISBN 0-330-23443-9) 1968
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (ISBN 671-78161-8) 1971
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western (ISBN 0-330-24829-4) 1974
Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery (ISBN 0-330-25250-X) 1975
Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (ISBN 0-671-22331-3) 1976
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 (ISBN 0-440-5 2059-2) 1977
So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away (ISBN 0-09-939100-7) 1982
The Tokyo-Montana Express (ISBN 0-440-58679-8)
poetry
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings (ISBN 0-395-97469-0)1999
The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
Lay the Marble Tea
The Octopus Frontier
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Please Plant This Book
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (ISBN 440-06956-095) 1968
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt (440-07496-195) 1970
Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork (ISBN 0-671-22263-5) 1971
June 30th, June 30th (ISBN 0-440-54265-0) 1977
short stories
Revenge of the Lawn (ISBN 671-78209-6) 1971

My Blog

Poems (from Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork

SEXUAL ACCIDENT The sexual accidentthat turned out to be your wife,the mother of your children and the end of our life, is homecooking dinner for all your friends. FUCK ME LIKE FRIED POTATOES Fuck me ...
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:21:00 PST

from "The Abortion, an Historical Romance 1966"

The Library This is a beautiful library, timed perfectly, lush and American. The hour is midnight and the library is deep and carried like a dreaming child into the darkness of these pages....
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Confederate General from Big Sur

A Confederate General from Big Su When I first heard about Big Sur I didn't know that it was a member of the Confederate States of America. I had always thought that Georgia, Arkansas, Mississi...
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

In Watermelon Sugar

IN WATERMELON SUGAR the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. Wherever you are, we must do the bes...
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammels and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to t...
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I've Never Had It Done So Gently Before

The sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. I've never had it done so gently before. You have put a circle of castles around my penis and you swirl them like sunlight on the ...
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The beautiful Poem

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penis affectionately. Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes me feel beautiful. 3 A...
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Love Poem

It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

These poems and what have you...

These computers are amazing! Please forgive any typography errors you find here. I'm still learning this language, html, such an ugly name, like a child missing a mother, so they are named it after a ...
Posted by Richard Brautigan's Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST