Betting on the Muse
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Betting on the Muse

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Betting on the Muse

About this book

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.

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Information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781574230017
eBook ISBN
9780061860690
Subtopic
Classics

TABLE OF CONTENTS

splash
the women
the monkey
Whistler
the pleasures of the damned
those marvelous lunches
panties
the dead flowers of myself
me against the world
the snails
again
the World War One movies
to hell and back in a buggy carriage
stages
escape
woman on the street
CONFESSION OF A COWARD
the secret
somebody else
A View from the Quarter, March 12th, 1965:
drink
black and white
and all the snow melted
an empire of coins
A NICKEL
nature poem
warning
answer to a note on the dresser:
you don’t know
let not
the dea...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Splash
  6. The Women
  7. The Monkey
  8. Whistler
  9. The Pleasures of the Damned
  10. Those Marvelous Lunches
  11. Panties
  12. The Dead Flowers of Myself
  13. Me Against the World
  14. The Snails
  15. Again
  16. The World War One Movies
  17. To Hell and Back in a Buggy Carriage
  18. Stages
  19. Escape
  20. Woman on the Street
  21. Confession of a Coward
  22. The Secret
  23. Somebody Else
  24. A View From the Quarter, March 12th, 1965:
  25. Drink
  26. Black and White
  27. And all the Snow Melted
  28. An Empire of Coins
  29. A Nickel
  30. Nature Poem
  31. Warning
  32. Answer to a Note on the Dresser:
  33. You don't Know
  34. Let Not
  35. The Death of a Roach
  36. The Unwritten
  37. Right Now
  38. The Sheep
  39. Piss
  40. Last Fight
  41. Defining the Magic
  42. Writing
  43. Views
  44. The Strong Man
  45. The Terror
  46. The Kiss-Off
  47. Betting on the Muse
  48. The Unaccommodating Universe
  49. Met a Man on the Street
  50. Hell is Now
  51. The Kid
  52. "To Serve and Protect"
  53. Bad Day
  54. The Dick
  55. Fall of the Roman Empire
  56. People
  57. Ransom
  58. It's Difficult For Them
  59. Think of it
  60. Chicken Giblets
  61. The Lover
  62. No Win
  63. The Star
  64. An Evaluation
  65. Neon
  66. They Think this is the way it's Done
  67. The Pile-Up
  68. 12 Minutes to Post
  69. As the Poems Go
  70. The Telephone
  71. Hideaway
  72. This Dirty, Valiant Game
  73. Stay out of my Slippers, you Fool
  74. The Voice
  75. The Bard of san Francisco
  76. On Biographies
  77. A Real Break
  78. Avoiding Humanity
  79. What Happened to the Loving, Laughing...
  80. The Luck of the Word
  81. Bad Form
  82. Last Call
  83. The Shape of the Star
  84. Upon Reading a Critical Review
  85. Paris, What?
  86. A Social Call
  87. The Girls we Followed Home
  88. Slow Starter
  89. Barstool
  90. Look Back, Look Up
  91. Paris
  92. The Good Soul
  93. Lousy Mail
  94. The Suicide
  95. Confession of a Genius
  96. Traffic Report
  97. Hands
  98. Final Score
  99. The Misanthrope
  100. Putting it to Bed
  101. The trash can
  102. Block
  103. Storm
  104. The Similarity
  105. My Madness
  106. Pastoral
  107. Finis
  108. That Rare Good Moment
  109. Doesn't seem like much
  110. Strange Luck
  111. Until it Hurts
  112. Death in the Afternoon
  113. The Gods
  114. Floss, Brush and Flush
  115. A Great Show
  116. Epilogue
  117. Fante
  118. It Got Away
  119. The Luck of the Draw
  120. Let it enfold you
  121. The 13th Month
  122. Finis, II
  123. The Observer
  124. August, 1993
  125. This Night
  126. Betting on now
  127. Decline
  128. In the Mouth of the Tiger
  129. The Laughing Heart
  130. A Challenge to the Dark
  131. So Now?
  132. About the Author
  133. By Charles Bukowski
  134. Copyright
  135. About the Publisher