Download or read book The Poet Confronts Bukowski s Ghost written by Kat Giordano and published by Philosophical Idiot. This book was released on 2018-06-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night that I open my first MFA rejection letter, Charles Bukowski appears in the corner of my college apartment in stained khakis and a yellowed white undershirt, swirling Jim Beam in a lowball glass... The Poet Confronts Bukowski's Ghost is Kat Giordano's debut full-length poetry collection. "This book is full of cutting truths and visceral honesty, softened by the same hand that sharpened it. It's rare to find a poet who is able to so effortlessly infuse comedy and humor into serious, heart-breaking poetry, but you find that in The Poet Confronts Bukowski's Ghost. Kat's vulnerability and openness feels almost effortless, and will make everyone who reads this collection want to be braver." -- Caitlyn Siehl, author of Crybaby "Kat Giordano's work reads like the human body after a crime of passion. And you look up and realize what you have done and the poems are over and you are sitting in a pool of blood. Or is it your own tears? You will feel a wetness and a hurt, like you did not want it to be over and then it was." -- Heather Bell, author of A Horse Made of Fire "Kat Giordano is a fearless poet of and for our troubled times. The voices in her poems struggle a lot. There's anxiety and self-doubt. There's Poet Man and MeToo and the lie of Bob Ross's fluffy evergreens - fake beauty that can lull a person into believing the world is prettier and more promising than it is. These are poems filled with speakers who know the fight for their artistic and literal survival -- however impossible it seems -- is their only option. . . What a fresh and edged voice this is. A fierce debut." -- Lori Jakiela, author of Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe

Download or read book Bukowski s Ghost written by Jackson Dean Chase and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems inspired by (and many about) Charles Bukowski. A touching tribute to Buk that captures the self-inflicted madness of the poet in all of us. Topics include loss and pain, hope and struggle, from childhood to beyond the grave. Includes 120 sad, funny, shocking poems like "Death March to the Food Bank," "This Dusty Soul," and "Bukowski's Ghost." SAMPLE POEM: "ANOTHER WASTED NIGHT" I am drunk on regret, on knowing I'll never be good enough. This diner is old, comforting, like my mother's hands. I slide into a booth and order fries wanting to taste love, wanting to taste anything but what I feel right now.

Download or read book On Drinking written by Charles Bukowski and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed “dirty old man,” Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and inspired. In On Drinking, Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writer’s most profound, funny, and memorable work on his ups and downs with the hard stuff—a topic that allowed Bukowski to explore some of life’s most pressing questions. Through drink, Bukowski is able to be alone, to be with people, to be a poet, a lover, and a friend—though often at great cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled “Drinking,”: “for me/it was or/is/a manner of/dying/with boots on/and gun/smoking and a/symphony music background.” On Drinking is a powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers.

Download or read book Clues about Ghosts written by Swede Burns and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Swede Burns, author of 5thSet and Evolutions, comes his first collection of poetry -- Clues About Ghosts. A beautiful and harrowing tour of anarchical romance, intimacy and the resulting despair. Divided into twelve players, Clues About Ghosts is a journey through love and loss. If you like Bukowski or Plath, you'll love Swede Burns. The most difficult part about a love ending-- is that it doesn't end. It might change, but almost never does it simply end. When you really let yourself love someone, you learn everything about them; what they've dealt with, what makes them the way they are, how they handle things, what is important to them, their weird behaviors and quirks. You learn who they are as a person, intimately, if you care about them enough; all their facts and feelings. All of that goes into a file-- and you carry it with you. Even when the relationship is done you carry these files with you. At least, I do. And there is a tremendous weight to that. The idea with Clues About Ghosts was to unload the heaviest parts of some of those files; to turn the page- both figuratively and literally, so I can accept the catharsis that comes from it, move out of this quicksand-- and carry on. As a result of the context, this work is very powerful. I know you'll appreciate it.

Download or read book sifting through the madness for the word the line the way written by Charles Bukowski and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America. Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski’s life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more. Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative – published posthumously, it’s completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski’s lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty. We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.

Download or read book Open All Night written by Charles Bukowski and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2000 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A testament to a fierce inverted work ethic, a belief in self-help through unending self-attention, a refusal to waste even the smallest table scrap of world or time: that same tenacity and commitment to his art which New York Times critic Jennifer Schuessler found in the Bukowski collection What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (Black Sparrow, 1999) can again be seen in the legendary bard's latest posthumous verse compilation. Several books after his demise, Buk still hasn't lost his revenant power. Think Villon as Lazarus, Celine popping out of the flames, Fante revivified. Written from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994, these 189 recovered poems suggest that even his heaviest adversary, encroaching mortality, never made Bukowski flinch. The courage is undaunted, even if there's a strong hint of rue mixed into these deadpan nightcap comedies.

Download or read book The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 143 new poems from one of America's greatest modern writers and most influential poets.

Download or read book Run With The Hunted written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.

Download or read book War All the Time written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter War All the Time is a selection of poetry from the early 1980s. Charles Bukowski shows that he is still as pure as ever but he has evolved into a slightly happier man that has found some fame and love. These poems show how he grapples with his past and future colliding.

Download or read book Betting on the Muse written by Charles Bukowski and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1996 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of Henry Chinaski, an indolent blue-collar intellectual, and his male and female friends, in a series of poems and stories

Download or read book LAST NIGHT EARTH POEMS written by Bukowski C and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1992-10-18 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

Download or read book Bukowski in the Bathtub written by Philomene Long and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a mind movie: conversations about conversations; remembrances of things past; weaving past and present. Its images are high contrast black and white, as in film noir (Charles Bukowski's favorite genre). Bukowski in the Bathtub is cinema verite on the page. Bukowski in the Bathtub is a portrait of Charles Bukowski by Beat Poet John Thomas. He was an intimate friend of Charles Bukowski between the years of 1965 through 1971. This book is based on the Thomas / Bukowski visits and conversations during that period. Of John Thomas, Charles Bukowski has said, ..".he made a place when / there was no place / a place to go when all / was closing in... he lent the easy / saving / natural grace..." (Excerpt from "strong man," a poem about John Thomas printed in Black Ace / Temple of Man).

Download or read book On Writing written by Charles Bukowski and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharp and moving reflections and ruminations on the artistry and craft of writing from one of our most iconoclastic, riveting, and celebrated masters. Charles Bukowski’s stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence—letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers—the writer shares his insights on the art of creation. On Writing reveals an artist brutally frank about the drudgery of work and canny and uncompromising about the absurdities of life—and of art. It illuminates the hard-edged, complex humanity of a true American legend and counterculture icon—the “laureate of American lowlife” (Time)—who stoically recorded society’s downtrodden and depraved. It exposes an artist grounded in the visceral, whose work reverberates with his central ideal: “Don't try.” Piercing, poignant, and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with Bukowski’s trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos, and intimacy.

Download or read book The Fountain written by Kat Giordano and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of her first serious long-term relationship, the book's protagonist, a 22-year-old woman caught in the loop of a dead-end data entry job, takes a trip out of the city to collect her thoughts and visit her friend, Sidney, at her hometown. Every year, Sidney throws a loosely-defined "festival" in which she invites her wide and widely-varied circle of friends to stay in her family's empty house for a long weekend of debauchery. This time, however, she's looking for a distraction, and she finds it in the form of Jay, a 40-something manual laborer who wastes no time in prying into her various emotional and existential burdens.

Download or read book Come On In written by Charles Bukowski and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bukowski's unmistakable charisma – an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse – made him one of the world’s most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his production. This collection is selected from an archive of verse that the author left to be published after his death. It includes poems of love and sex, advice to so-called losers (as he once was) to have confidence in themselves (as he did), gambling laments and humbling poems accepting his own imminent ultimate full stop.

Download or read book Shakespeare Never Did this written by Charles Bukowski and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buk goes to Europe circa 1979. Michael Montfort took the (bandw) photographs. It may not sound like much but it's really quite thrilling. You can almost smell the great man's breath. 10.5x8.5". (RC) Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Bukowski Purdy Letters written by Charles Bukowski and published by Sutton West, Ont. : Pager Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: