ESSENTIAL BUKOWSKI POETRY EB
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ESSENTIAL BUKOWSKI POETRY EB

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ESSENTIAL BUKOWSKI POETRY EB

About this book

'The best poet in America' Jean Genet

'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark

Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.

Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there's a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.

Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heart-breaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. friendly advice to a lot of young men, and a lot of old men, too
  6. as the sparrow
  7. layover
  8. the life of Borodin
  9. when Hugo Wolf went mad
  10. destroying beauty
  11. the day i kicked a bankroll out the window
  12. the twins
  13. to the whore who took my poems
  14. the loser
  15. the best way to get famous is to run away
  16. the tragedy of the leaves
  17. old man, dead in a room
  18. the priest and the matador
  19. the state of world affairs from a 3rd floor window
  20. the swan
  21. beans with garlic
  22. a poem is a city
  23. consummation of grief
  24. for Jane: with all the love I had, which was not enough
  25. for Jane
  26. john dillinger and le chasseur maudit
  27. crucifix in a deathhand
  28. something for the touts, the nuns, the grocery clerks and you . . .
  29. no. 6
  30. and the moon and the stars and the world:
  31. true story
  32. the genius of the crowd
  33. I met a genius
  34. swastika star buttoned to my ass
  35. the blackbirds are rough today
  36. If we take—
  37. another academy
  38. the poetry reading
  39. the last days of the suicide kid
  40. the shower
  41. the mockingbird
  42. style
  43. girl in a miniskirt reading the Bible outside my window
  44. the shoelace
  45. those sons of bitches
  46. hot
  47. trouble with Spain
  48. a radio with guts
  49. some people never go crazy
  50. the fisherman
  51. the trash men
  52. face of a political candidate on a street billboard
  53. the proud thin dying
  54. an almost made up poem
  55. a love poem for all the women i have known
  56. art
  57. what they want
  58. one for the shoeshine man
  59. the meek have inherited
  60. who in the hell is Tom Jones?
  61. and a horse with greenblue eyes walks on the sun
  62. an acceptance slip
  63. the end of a short affair
  64. I made a mistake
  65. $$$$$$
  66. metamorphosis
  67. we’ve got to communicate
  68. the secret of my endurance
  69. Carson McCullers
  70. sparks
  71. the history of a tough motherfucker
  72. oh, yes
  73. retirement
  74. luck
  75. cornered
  76. how is your heart?
  77. the burning of the dream
  78. hell is a lonely place
  79. the strongest of the strange
  80. 8 count
  81. we ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain
  82. flophouse
  83. the soldier, his wife and the bum
  84. no leaders
  85. Dinosauria, we
  86. nirvana
  87. the bluebird
  88. the secret
  89. fan letter
  90. to lean back into it
  91. the condition book
  92. a new war
  93. the laughing heart
  94. roll the dice
  95. so now?
  96. the crunch
  97. Sources
  98. Acknowledgments
  99. About the Authors
  100. Also by Charles Bukowski
  101. About the Publisher