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The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
Charles Bukowski
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Description for The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
Paperback. The fifth and final collection of poems from one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose--and many would claim its most influential and imitated poet. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 348.
the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked miles through the city and recognized nothing as a giant claw ate at my stomach while the inside of my head felt airy as if I was about to go mad. it's not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning ... Read more
the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked miles through the city and recognized nothing as a giant claw ate at my stomach while the inside of my head felt airy as if I was about to go mad. it's not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ecco
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780060577087
SKU
V9780060577087
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Ref
99-98
About Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there ... Read more
Reviews for The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
“We all knew Bukowski was a tough guy, but who would have guessed that even the grave could not shut him up? The People Look Like Flowers At Last shows him at his scruffy, hard-hitting, tender-hearted best. They say this is his final posthumous book, but don’t bet on it.” — Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate “The purportedly “fifth ... Read more