false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170369400m/50469.jpg 50469 5 <P>from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane"</p> <P>young young young, only wanting the Word, <br> going mad in the streets and in the bars,<br> brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women <br>screaming in<br> your cheap room,<br> you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North<br> Avenue 21, Lincoln Heights<br> <P>sifting through the madness for the Word, the <br>line <br> the way,<br> hoping for a check from somewhere,<br> dreaming of a letter from a great editor:<br> "Chinaski, you don't know how long we've been waiting for you!"<br> <P>no chance at all.</p> 1353551 2003 sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems total:409|5:164|4:153|3:75|2:14|1:3| 409 1688 531 26 3 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Jun 21 09:59:23 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 11:39:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 08:31:33 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 08:49:09 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 07:20:43 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 07:45:21 -0700 2007 Sifting Through The Madness contains more than 150 poems spanning more than 400 pages tells the reader that this poetry collection is far from average. Bukowski, probably too prolific in many things, especially writing, for his own good provides us with the gift of ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 00:13:11 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 23:34:01 -0700 2008
I'll never be one of the foaming-at-the-mouth hero-worshippers, because there's a lot about Bukowski that I can't like or agree with, but his writing is nothing if not honest and unpretentious. I do prefer his poems to his short stories, for the most par...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Jan 17 20:36:11 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 20:48:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 20 13:34:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 13:36:12 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 27 14:20:44 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 15:54:11 -0800 2009
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the raw simplicity, however cliche that may sound, is what resonates beautifully throughout this book. the stanzas, albeit one word or a paragraph, help give gravity to what chinaski is saying.

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