Research Catalog

Title

The pleasures of the damned : poems, 1951-1993 / Charles Bukowski ; edited by John Martin.

Author

Bukowski, Charles

Publication

New York : Ecco, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Martin, John, 1930-

Description

556 p. : port.; 24 cm.

Summary

• To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was- - and remains- - a counterculture icon. A hard- drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women, that spoke to his fans as "real" and, like the work of the Beats, even dangerous.
• THE PLEASURES OF THE DAMNED is a selection of the best works of Bukowski's later years, edited by John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, including the last of his new, never- before- published poems.

Alternative Title

Pleasures of the damned

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• Poetry as Topic

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mockingbird -- Something's knocking at the door -- His wife, the painter -- On the sidewalk and in the sun -- Elephants of Vietnam -- Dark night poem -- Last days of the suicide kid -- Tabby cat -- Metamorphosis -- Poem is a city -- Smile to remember -- Free 25-page booklet -- They, all of them know -- Future congressman -- Eulogy -- Drowning -- Fooling Marie (the poem) -- Young man on the bus stop bench -- For they had things to say -- Silly damned thing anyhow -- Upon reading an interview with a best-selling novelist in our Metropolitan Daily newspaper -- Harbor freeway south -- Schoolyards of forever -- In the lobby -- Sex -- Clean, well-lighted place -- Something for the touts, the nuns, the grocery clerks and you -- Blue beads and bones -- Like a cherry seed in the throat -- turnabout -- Mystery leg -- Girl outside the supermarket -- It is not much -- 2 outside, as bones break in my kitchen -- Japanese wife -- Harder you try -- Lady in red -- Shower -- I was glad -- Angel who pushed his wheelchair -- Time to remember -- Wrong way -- No wonder -- Threat to my immportality -- My telephone -- Carson McCullers -- Mongolian coasts shining in light -- Putrefaction -- Where was Jane? -- Something about a woman -- Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission -- Trashcan lives -- School days -- Grass -- Crucifix in a deathhand -- Screw-game -- Millionaires -- When you wait for the dawn to crawl through the screen like a burglar to take your life away -- Talkers -- Art -- Advice for some young man in the year 2064 A.D. -- Ice for the eagles -- Girl in a miniskirt reading the Bible outside my window -- Hell is a lonely place -- Girls and the birds -- 1813-1883 -- No leaders, please -- Song -- One for Sherwood Anderson -- Bow wow love -- Day the epileptic spoke -- When Hugo Wolf went mad -- In a neighborhood of murder -- Strangest sight you ever did see -- Second novel -- Junk -- Mademoiselle from Armentieres -- Now -- Society should realize -- Souls of dead animals -- Tragedy of the leaves -- Birds -- Loner -- Genius of the crowd -- German bar -- Snow of Italy -- For Jane: with all the live I had, which was not enough: notice -- For Jane -- Eulogy to a hell of a dame -- Barfly -- Was Li Po wrong? -- Night I saw George Raft in Vegas -- I am eaten by butterflies -- Veryest -- Man mowing the lawn across the way from me -- Oh, yes -- Poop -- Phillipe's 1950 -- Downtown -- Elephants in the zoo -- Girl on the escalator -- Shit shits -- Big time loser -- Commerce -- Come on in! -- Bakers of 1935 -- Secret laughter -- Democracy -- Empire of coins -- What? -- American Flag Shirt -- Now she's free -- Simple truth -- Gold in your eye -- Great writer -- Smoking car -- Shoelace -- Self-inflicted wounds -- Verdi -- Young lady who lives in Canoga Park -- Life of the king -- My failure -- Boy and his dog -- Liberated woman and liberated man -- Small talk -- Crunch -- Funhouse -- Poetry reading -- Somebody -- Colored birds -- Poem for personnel managers: my fate -- My atomic stockpile -- Bruckner -- Hello, how are you? -- Vacancy -- Batting slump -- Bang bang -- Pleasures of the damned -- One more good one -- Little girls hissed -- Ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha -- Thoughts from a stone bench in Venice -- Scene in a tent outside the cotton fields of Bakersfield: 3:16 and one half ... -- Literary discussion -- Butterflies -- Great escape -- My friend William -- Safe -- Starve, go mad, or kill yourself -- Beautiful lady -- My life as a sitcom -- Who needs it? -- Riots -- Those marvelous lunches -- Look -- Big one -- Genius -- About the PEN Conference -- What a man I was -- Scarlet -- Like a flower in the rain -- Killer -- Prayer in bad weather -- Melancholia -- Eat your heart out -- I made a mistake -- She comes from somewhere -- High-rise of the New World -- Car wash -- Van Gogh -- Railroad yard -- Girls at the green hotel -- In other words -- Destroying beauty -- Peace -- Afternoons into night -- We ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain -- Marina -- Trollius and trellises -- Beagle -- Coffee and babies -- Magical mystery tour -- Last generation -- About competition -- Radio with guts -- Egg -- Killer gets ready -- In the center of the action -- Poetry -- Notes upon the flaxen aspect -- Fisherman -- 1930s -- Burning of the dream -- Sit and endure -- Goldfish -- Finish -- Dreaming -- My special craving -- Love poem -- One writer's funeral -- Wine of forever -- Pile-up -- My big night on the town -- Close encounters of another kind -- Drying out -- Scene from 1940 -- Area of pause -- I know you -- Relentless as the tarantula -- Replacements -- To lean back into it -- Eating my senior citizen's dinner at the Sizzler -- It's strange -- Beast -- Woman on the street -- Lost in San Pedro -- Manx -- History of a tough motherfucker -- Bad fix -- One for the old boy -- My cats -- Death wants more death -- Lisp -- On being 20 -- Meanwhile -- World's greatest loser -- Human nature -- Trash men -- Gold pocket watch -- Talking to my mailbox -- I liked him -- One for the shoeshine man -- Proud thin dying -- Shot of red-eye -- About pain -- Hot -- Who in the hell is Tom Jones? -- Price -- I'm in love -- Girls -- Ladies of summer -- Tonight -- Shoes -- Hug the dark -- Face of a political candidate on a street billboard -- White dog -- On going out to get the mail -- Spring swan -- How is your heart? -- Closing time -- Racetrack parking lot at the end of the day -- There -- Dinosauria, we -- Mind and heart -- TB -- Crime does pay -- Orderly -- Nurses -- Cancer -- First poem back -- Tired in the afterdusk -- Again -- So now? -- Blue -- Summation -- Sun coming down -- Twilight musings -- My last winter -- Like a dolphin -- Bluebird -- If we take.

ISBN

• 9780061228438 (hbk.)
• 0061228435 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2007282394

OCLC

• 166624738
• SCSB-11270056

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library