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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Bukowski book that I ever read. I think Bukowski's importance as an American writer will only grow in the 21st century. The man is already a Hemingway-like figure in Europe.The cultural snobs of academia in America have tried to ignore his work, but that will change. This collectio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21154121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my personal favorite of Bukowski's books of poetry. It has such a raw voice to it. So many of the poems in this collection are memorable. This is the book I pull out when someone tells me that they know poetry because they know the 'classics'. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was like 14. I thought he was brilliant.... turns out, not so much]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a senior in high school and I was looking for poems to read for the UIL competition.  I was competing in poetry reading like I did every year.  I was going to take state that year.  I had finally figured out the only thing the judges wanted: to be entertained.  <br/><br/>But I was depressed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36006315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scholars won't touch Bukowski. He's inconsistent, he does a ton of things that don't work. some poems are just plain bad, but when he gets it (and he does a decent amount of the time) it's great. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's Bukowski, what do you expect? I mostly just love the title, since it describes pretty much exactly what the Brujo has done onstage for about 30 years now.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Charels Bukowski is my father's favorite poet.  So, of course, I read Charels Bukowski.  It's for reason similar that I've seen every movie ever made with Robert Shaw in the cast: my mother loves Robert Shaw.  Looking into the activites and favorites of one's parents tends to give one a better under...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28535809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[incredible, especially if poetry isn't your thing.  and even more incredible if it is.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny.  Dark at times.  Good bathroom read (apologies to the author).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More good poems from a brilliant writer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good collection of early Bukowski poetry]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poetry written by a drunk.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I mean...It's Bukowski.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another Bukowski great.  The first poem in the collection, &quot;Tough Company&quot;, is the first of his that I ever read.  It was great to find it again.  The perfect book for the lay reader who is hesitant of poetry because it seems too fancy-schmancy.  Stop using that lame excuse and give this o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24097362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my intro to Bukowski, many years ago.  I still remember reading the first poem and thinking, &quot;Holy shit!  I didn't know you could write poems like this!&quot;  <br/><br/>I LOVE this book (and one of my copies is autographed to me from The Buk) and think it's a wonderful introduction ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4009929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was my songwriting instructor, Nik Venet, who turned me on to Bukowski.  And if you're a songwriter, you need to read as much of the man as you can get your hands on.  he has a way of slicing and dicing and making your brain ache with laughter and sadness.  Not bad training for a songwriter.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Buk at the close of his really raw period starting to sound like a self-parody and worse, more bad racetrack poems, more whiny drunk lover crap, and...&quot;It feels good to be driven around in a red porsche by a woman better read than I am&quot;. Get the awful picture?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Fire Station&quot; is one of the great narrative poems of the last hundred years, and it's also one of the oddest love poems I've ever read. Wonderful book. Bukowski doing what he does best: cutting through the poetry to make poetry.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm a pretty big fan of bukowski in general but i think his poetry is my favourite.  this is one of a few books i own that i thoroughly enjoyed.  also good: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= you get so alone" title=" you get so alone"> you get so alone</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= burning in water drowning in flame" title=" burning in water drowning in flame"> burning in water drowning in flame</a>.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read poetry.  but this is some of the funniest and truest writing I have ever read.  This man is a jackass and a king at the same time.  I can relate... Sadly/hopefully this is true to me...]]></body>
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