Essential Bukowski: Poetry

Essential Bukowski: Poetry
Abel Debritto

Charles Bukowski

‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard CohenThe definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring markHere 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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CONTENTS

Cover (#u1d8d7f6a-231d-553c-9848-61d3565ca740)

Title Page (#u1bf851d6-c3cf-5318-ac45-4bb4b4cc2a96)

Copyright (#ue8c28262-d87d-5955-82d6-8006fa004b78)

Introduction (#uaeff3ef9-1fc6-55f2-b48a-9c3392c4bb95)

friendly advice to a lot of young men, and a lot of old men, too (#u9e159778-bc4b-53aa-aec1-e4bff8575427)

as the sparrow (#ulink_f65f45db-a039-51b6-87d2-b4e4aa715766)

layover (#ulink_3f291e67-6d46-55f7-87f6-5151c725574f)

the life of Borodin (#ulink_796e6c3a-6eef-54d9-81f6-a6b0f89ce2e0)

when Hugo Wolf went mad (#ulink_a6145996-c0ac-5a52-839b-faf4fd3e26cd)

destroying beauty (#ulink_0261f684-436c-595f-886e-8c07ff442cc0)

the day I kicked a bankroll out the window (#ulink_28134f0c-2ff5-533c-b0b7-853326e05ec0)

the twins (#ulink_b5ce355e-e692-592b-9ffe-64ccd1c2b1e5)

to the whore who took my poems (#ulink_cc01b2fa-0331-5153-be19-44ea4478db97)

the loser (#ulink_04d2e233-b98a-5ff8-9ba8-e98fead8a9b7)

the best way to get famous is to run away (#ulink_5637087b-99ee-585a-a14f-3391bf85f602)

the tragedy of the leaves (#ulink_1eb4917f-8caa-560c-a4c9-d1c7609d92dd)

old man, dead in a room (#ulink_4578a6b5-379d-5b30-8a82-23ba036de1a9)

the priest and the matador (#ulink_a51f72cb-2ea3-5b64-b4d3-16cb78e2a334)

the state of world affairs from a 3rd floor window (#ulink_0db89134-422f-5605-b98c-b48d7ebea381)

the swan (#ulink_6ffd7e27-a14e-5534-ba16-6c289bca9742)

beans with garlic (#ulink_94946bb1-23b0-575d-8e84-26e5ec11c429)

a poem is a city (#ulink_2090ca06-5018-5c87-9210-192c69db740e)

consummation of grief (#ulink_24127079-875f-5263-8bb4-de680efb820a)

for Jane: with all the love I had, which was not enough (#ulink_5f3a1ef0-4427-5719-a6c4-5dc584cd086b)

for Jane (#ulink_8b6972a9-efeb-51a2-961b-edae8a7029a0)

john dillinger and le chasseur maudit (#ulink_e8c7d02f-32ee-5757-a9d0-da5ad3c27d9c)

crucifix in a deathhand (#litres_trial_promo)

something for the touts, the nuns, the grocery clerks and you . . . (#litres_trial_promo)

no. 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

and the moon and the stars and the world: (#litres_trial_promo)

true story (#litres_trial_promo)

the genius of the crowd (#litres_trial_promo)