| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
270 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A 4th of July in the early 30's 3 -- Without stress or agony 9 -- My close call 12 -- Clothes cost money 13 -- An easy way to die 17 -- We have hand guns around here 19 -- Making do 20 -- Rare indeed 27 -- The Poet 28 -- Bolero 31 -- A winter memory 34 -- Living in a great big way 36 -- Then and now 37 -- How did they get their job? 44 -- Paper and people 45 -- Writer's block 49 -- Disorder and early sorrow 51 -- In this place 54 -- The uninitiated 55 -- Cicada 57 -- Never interrupt a writer at work 58 -- Oh my 59 -- Meeting them 60 -- No eulogies, please 62 -- Finality 64 -- The machinery of loss 65 -- Damsels of the night 69 -- Forewarned 74 -- She lost weight 75 -- Military surplus 76 -- A difficult woman 79 -- Talk 81 -- Where the action is real 83 -- Academy Award? 86 -- Beach boys 88 -- I'm no good 90 -- Friend of the family 92 -- Solving a crime before it begins 94 -- Note for my wall 96 -- The wine that roared 97 -- 2:07 a.m. 101 -- A clean, well-lighted place 105 -- Do we really care? 108 -- For crying out loud 111 -- High school girls 113 -- Emergency 115 -- For a woman who might some day become a nun 116 -- Some people ask for it 117 -- Against the Window pane 119 -- An answer to a day's worth of mail 121 -- New York, New York 122 -- The knife Waltz 125 -- Dusty shoes 126 -- Vulgar poem 128 -- This one 134 -- The big lonely night 140 -- One a.m. 145 -- The curse 147 -- With his awful teeth 149 -- Golden boy 151 -- Surreal tangerines 153 -- Little magazines and poetry chapbooks 155 -- My buddy 156 -- Last Friday night 158 -- Open here 160 -- A name is nothing if the named is nothing 161 -- The stupidest thing I ever did 163 -- You can't make a lion out of a butterfly 165 -- I don't know about you but 168 -- It's a drag just breathing 172 -- A hard lesson 175 -- A conversation to remember 177 -- Picture show 178 -- He played first base 179 -- The suicide kid 181 -- Snake eyes and faulty screams 183 -- I fought them from the moment I saw light 184 -- Now, Ezra 187 -- Concession 189 -- It 190 -- Terror 191 -- My rosy ass 193 -- This is a bitter poem 196 -- Poem for nobody 199 -- Checkmate 201 -- The Tide 202 -- To hell and back 210 -- Something's knocking at the door 212 -- Regardless 214 -- The dandy 219 -- I am a mole 221 -- Somebody else 222 -- IBM Selectric 224 -- Why oh why and oh why not? 227 -- Movies 228 -- No luck at all 229 -- Good news 232 -- Bedpan nightmare 234 -- Robert 237 -- Private screenings 239 -- As you slow down the mermaids look the other way 241 -- Something new 243 -- The swimming pool 244 -- The great writer 246 -- I used to think 247 -- From the department of health 249 -- Working out 251 -- My friend William Burroughs 252 -- A note upon starvation 254 -- Poem for my 70th birthday 256 -- You'll never know 257 -- Joe 259 -- Top gun 263 -- It's strange 264 -- Explosion 266 -- Small talk 268 -- Basic 270. |
| Summary |
"Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994)."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| ISBN |
0060577037 |
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9780060577032 |
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