Charles Bukowski's gamble in art was as prolific as it was audacious. The second in Black Sparrow's series of posthumous volumes of Bukowski's poetry takes us deeper into the raw, wild vein that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s. As in Bone Palace Ballet (1997), Buk here observes the world with an "unadorned self-awareness" (Publishers Weekly) that makes each poem "a little nugget of roughneck-intellectual autobiography or attitude" (Booklist). The courage, candor, humor and human understanding of Bukowski's poetry commingle to create a kind of intuitive contact and gut wisdom not found in Western verse since Francois Villon.it's a farce, the great actors, the great poets, the greatstatesmen, the great painters, the great composers, thegreat loves, it's a farce, a farce, a farce, history and the recording of it, forget it, forget it.you must begin all over again.throw all that out.all of them outyou are alone with now.look at your fingernails.touch your nose.begin.the day flings itself uponyou.
- ISBN10 1574231065
- ISBN13 9781574231069
- Publish Date October 1999
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 390
- Language English