The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (601 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061228443 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Celebrating the full range of the poet's extra-ordinary and surprising sensibility, and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a rich lifetime of experiences and speak to Bukowski's "immense intelligence, the caring heart that saw through the sham of our pretenses and had pity on our human condition" (The New York Quarterly). The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both longtime fans and those just discovering this unique and legendary American voice.. To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubbor
Freaking amazing! I'm not going to get all flowery and Lou Ann Stowell Freaking amazing! I'm not going to get all flowery and sentimental because Bukowski I don't think would have appreciated it or thought it too trite expressing the elite-est "cuteness".Bukowski wasn't cute or pretty in his writinghe wrote what he saw around him with an awake and aware in-the-moment presence that is reality. Reality is not pretty or kind. I love his writing for that.Also I found the words to his dead love in the poems "for Jane: with all the Lo. "Great Book!" according to Joe F. This is an excellent compilation of Mr. Bukowski's poems and stories. You'll enjoy this one! It arrived quickly, and it was in much better shape than was stated- it was like new- and it was a nice price, too.. ""I Have Been Alone But Seldom Lonely"" according to Foster Corbin. THE PLEASURES OF THE DAMNED is a collection of Charles Bukowski's poems, 5"I Have Been Alone But Seldom Lonely" Foster Corbin THE PLEASURES OF THE DAMNED is a collection of Charles Bukowski's poems, 548 pages of them, many of them from earlier volumes of poetry, some of them never before published. For anyone familiar with Bukowski, there are few if any surprises here, rather a healthy sampling of this iconoclast's poetry. So very autobiographical, many of these poems are about the things Bukowski loved: the races, cats (you can learn from them), booze, poetry (he calls himself a po. 8 pages of them, many of them from earlier volumes of poetry, some of them never before published. For anyone familiar with Bukowski, there are few if any surprises here, rather a healthy sampling of this iconoclast's poetry. So very autobiographical, many of these poems are about the things Bukowski loved: the races, cats (you can learn from them), booze, poetry (he calls himself a po
Bukowski's chatty free verse (and fiction) about disappointment, drunkenness, racetracks, flophouses, lust, sexual failure, poverty and late-life success amassed an enormous following by the time of his death at age 73 in 1994. Bukowski's best poems have an exaggerated, B-movie black-and-white aura about them. Near the front of the volume comes a page-and-a-half-long verse manifesto, a poem is a city, that might describe what Bukowski could do: a poem is a city filled with streets and sewers, it begins, filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen banality and booze, and yet a poem is the world. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Billed as the
He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.. Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and p