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Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061979988 |
in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the cross. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow on the wall before me. my love what is left of it now must crawl to wherever it can crawl. the strongest know that death is final and the happiest are those gifted with the shortest journey.
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-01-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780060577087 |
the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked miles through the city and recognized nothing as a giant claw ate at my stomach while the inside of my head felt airy as if I was about to go mad. it’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing, there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust. —from "fingernails; nostrils; shoelaces"
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 006197997X |
One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America. Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski’s life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more. Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative – published posthumously, it’s completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski’s lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty. We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0061881848 |
“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure.
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0061860697 |
“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.
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002-05-31 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780876857946 |
Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait of Los Angeles
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 006177121X |
In the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture luminary. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he has struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women in an authentic voice that is, like the work of the Beats, iconoclastic and even dangerous. Edited by his longtime publisher, John Martin, of Black Sparrow Press, and now in paperback, The Continual Condition includes more of this legend’s never-before-collected poems.
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0061871435 |
This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance.
Author | : Robert H. Bork |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2010-11-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0062030914 |
In this New York Times bestselling book, Robert H. Bork, our country's most distinguished conservative scholar, offers a prophetic and unprecedented view of a culture in decline, a nation in such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling: a nation that slouches not towards the Bethlehem envisioned by the poet Yeats in 1919, but towards Gomorrah. Slouching Towards Gomorrah is a penetrating, devastatingly insightful exposé of a country in crisis at the end of the millennium, where the rise of modern liberalism, which stresses the dual forces of radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification), has undermined our culture, our intellect, and our morality. In a new Afterword, the author highlights recent disturbing trends in our laws and society, with special attention to matters of sex and censorship, race relations, and the relentless erosion of American moral values. The alarm he sounds is more sobering than ever: we can accept our fate and try to insulate ourselves from the effects of a degenerating culture, or we can choose to halt the beast, to oppose modern liberalism in every arena. The will to resist, he warns, remains our only hope.
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0061979759 |
The second of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet –– 143 never–before–seen works of gritty, amusing, and inspiring verse.