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 obser...

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1. Verfasser:	Bukowski, Charles 1920-1994 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Santa Rosa Black Sparrow Press 1999
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1900-2000 American poetry > 20th century
Zusammenfassung:	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 great statesmen, the great painters, the great composers, the
Beschreibung:	409 S.
ISBN:	1574231065