'The cat is the beautiful devil.'
Charles Bukowski had a soft spot for cats. He saw something majestic and elemental about them, something conveyed by the intensity of their searing gaze. Cats see into us; they are on to something.
At the same time, in On Cats, we see cats at their most ruthless and most resilient: they are fighters, hunters, survivors who command awe and respect as they grip tightly onto the world around them.
'A cat is only ITSELF,' Bukowski wrote. 'Representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.'
Funny, poignant, tough and tender, On Cats collects the writer's reflections on the animals he so admired. Bukowski's cats are seen fighting and stalking their prey, crawling across his typewritten pages and waking him up with claws across the face. But they are also found standing quietly by, sources of inspiration and courage and providers of a kind of gentle, insistent care. Unsentimental but filled with deep feeling, On Cats reveals Bukowski's unique way of looking at the world through his relationship with the animals he considered among his most profound teachers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- conversation on a telephone
- the cat
- I do not always hate the cat that kills the bird, only the cat that kills me . . .
- startled into life like fire
- I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead
- the devious good of rescuing the suffering
- portrait of a soul for flies
- the mockingbird
- looking at the cat’s balls
- the strangest thing
- wet night
- little tigers everywhere
- bad fix
- gift
- Butch Van Gogh
- a reader
- Manx
- night work
- cats and people and you and me and everything—
- the history of a tough motherfucker
- terminology
- one for the old boy
- a nature poem for you
- a sensible fellow
- wearing the collar
- exactly fine
- a cat is a cat is a cat is a cat
- another casualty
- my cat, the writer
- 5 cats
- warm light
- the dream
- some of this place
- our gang
- unclassical symphony
- war surplus
- when everything seems like suicide finality
- cool fur
- consummation
- tragedy?
- my cats
- Sources
- Acknowledgments
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