Kerstin's review
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
by Charles Bukowski
Kerstin's review
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski
Kerstin's review
rating:
This is one of my favorite collections of poetry. Charles Bukowski led a pretty rough life (he was an unapologetic, womanizing, violent drunk) which is reflected in his work. Some of his pieces are coarse, lewd, and downright graphic. But amongst all of the chaos and drunkeness he will write something beautiful and poignant, which seems even more so in contrast to then violent and lacivious poems around it. And that's kind of what poetry is, isn't it? Finding something beautiful in the everyday. For whatever reason, this does it for me.
