Essential Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

• Publisher: Ecco
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780062565303
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Cartas literarias

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.

Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski's unvarnished and self-deprecating verse illuminates the deepest and most enduring concerns of the human condition while remaining sharply aware of the day to day.

With his acute eye for the ridiculous and the troubled, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience. Gloomy yet hopeful, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace.

This is Essential Bukowski.

CONTENTS

2. Introduction
3. Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men, and a Lot of Old Men, too
4. As the Sparrow
5. Layover
6. The Life of Borodin
7. When Hugo Wolf Went Mad
8. Destroying Beauty
9. The Day I Kicked a Bankroll Out the Window
10. The Twins
11. To the Whore Who Took My Poems
12. The Loser
13. The Best Way to Get Famous is to Run Away
14. The Tragedy of the Leaves
15. Old Man, Dead in a Room
16. The Priest and the Matador
17. The State of World Affairs from a 3rd Floor Window
18. The Swan
19. Beans with Garlic
20. A Poem is a City
21. Consummation of Grief
22. For Jane: With all the Love I had, Which was not Enough
23. For Jane
24. John Dillinger and Le Chasseur Maudit
25. Crucifix in a Deathhand
26. Something for the Touts, the Nuns, the Grocery Clerks and you . . .
27. No. 6
28. And the Moon and the Stars and the World:
29. True Story
30. The Genius of the Crowd
31. I Met a Genius
32. Swastika Star Buttoned to My Ass
33. The Blackbirds are ...