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Open All Night
These 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski's that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994.
ebook, 368 pages
Published
March 17th 2009
by HarperCollins e-books
(first published 2000)
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My favourite one:
Stark dead
pretentious pap smeared on
sanctified
walls
again and again
until almost everybody believes it is viable
affectations of the centuries
accepted
as Art.
beware the textbooks, beware the libraries,
beware the galleries,
beware the mother.
we are born into a civilization which
is stunned by overwhelming
mediocrity.
what is placed before us is artifice,
an illusion, a lie.
the womb has spilled us into a
sewer.
new gods are needed.
new doors must be opened.
we have waited so long for so littl...more
Stark dead
pretentious pap smeared on
sanctified
walls
again and again
until almost everybody believes it is viable
affectations of the centuries
accepted
as Art.
beware the textbooks, beware the libraries,
beware the galleries,
beware the mother.
we are born into a civilization which
is stunned by overwhelming
mediocrity.
what is placed before us is artifice,
an illusion, a lie.
the womb has spilled us into a
sewer.
new gods are needed.
new doors must be opened.
we have waited so long for so littl...more
some of my favorite poems from this fine collection.
"this is a fact"
in the company of fools
we relax upon
ordinary embankments,
enjoy bad food, cheap
drink,
mingle with the men and
ladies from
hell.
in the company of fools
we throw days away like
paper napkins.
in this company
our music is loud and our
laughter
untrue.
we have nothing to lose
but our selves.
join us.
we are now
almost
the entire
world.
God bless
us.
"stark dead"
pretentious pap smeared on sanctified
walls
again and again
until almost everybody believes i...more
"this is a fact"
in the company of fools
we relax upon
ordinary embankments,
enjoy bad food, cheap
drink,
mingle with the men and
ladies from
hell.
in the company of fools
we throw days away like
paper napkins.
in this company
our music is loud and our
laughter
untrue.
we have nothing to lose
but our selves.
join us.
we are now
almost
the entire
world.
God bless
us.
"stark dead"
pretentious pap smeared on sanctified
walls
again and again
until almost everybody believes i...more
This is one of favorite collections by Bukowski, Beer Bottle Blow being one of my favorite poems:
She put the gun
back into her
purse
and walked away down
the street
just in her
panties.
the cops didn't find
her
that night
or the next or
the next.
where can a woman
go
built like 33 brick shit
houses
dressed just in her
panties?
She put the gun
back into her
purse
and walked away down
the street
just in her
panties.
the cops didn't find
her
that night
or the next or
the next.
where can a woman
go
built like 33 brick shit
houses
dressed just in her
panties?
It's Bukowski, so of course I adore it, but...some of the poems try too hard to be poetry - when in actuality, they're words that should have stayed in the typewriter.
Bukowski's raw and raunchy poetic ramblings about his drunken, prostitute-filled life on skid row LA is the opposite of what I thought I'd ever like. He tells it like it is and does not candy coat. His repulsive life style is redeemed with his many ode's to his one true love, Jane. For me, one who will hopefully never live the life that Bukowski writes about, I actually enjoy taking a mental romp down those harrowing streets and living for a few poems that dirty life, relishing the feeling that...more
A must read.
The best Bukowski there is.
Apr 11, 2013
Ed Smith
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Bukowski lovers
I was obsessed by reading Bukowski.
I want to read more. Sometimes the
poems are not great but it is Buk's telling
of many manly situations in his alternative ego
Chinski that keeps me reading more.
Is it great literture, not really but it is Fun to read yes.
This one reminds of all night diners in
North Jersey especially Tick TOck diner in Clifton.
but Charles' location is
LA,where the race track and is his mileu.
A funny book
I want to read more. Sometimes the
poems are not great but it is Buk's telling
of many manly situations in his alternative ego
Chinski that keeps me reading more.
Is it great literture, not really but it is Fun to read yes.
This one reminds of all night diners in
North Jersey especially Tick TOck diner in Clifton.
but Charles' location is
LA,where the race track and is his mileu.
A funny book
Good collection of poems.
One of the better
One of the better
Another Bukowski anthology. His work gets me everytime, there is hardly a collection that doesn't have a ton of poems I can identify with.
Par for the course. Buk got better when he got old, but its the same bit.
guh, how many of these friggen books did i read?!
Apr 14, 2013
Austin
marked it as to-read
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
literary-fiction-poetry
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Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to g...more
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