The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
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4.0 • 6 Ratings
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) remains as prolific and belligerent in death as he did in life. In classic Bukowski fashion, the pieces in The Night Torn with Footsteps: New Poems deploy the line-as-phrase as a primary formal constraint, and a hackneyed, boastful misogyny as a major rhetorical gesture. If continually found "sitting/ in my cheesebox room/ closer to suicide than/ salvation," readers will still be right there with Buk. ( Dec. 11)
Customer Reviews
Totally different and unpretentious
Bukowski is a five. You either get it or you don’t. Watch Barfly and all will be revealed.