People Aren't Good (The Crunch by Charles Bukowski)

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  • The Last Night of the Earth Poems

    • ASIN: 0876858639
    • ISBN: 9780876858639
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

  • The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993

    • ASIN: 0061228443
    • ISBN: 0061228443
    • Brand: Ecco Press
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street-tough poems whose truth has struck a chord with generations of readers. Edited by John... [Read More]

  • The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems

    • ASIN: 0060577088
    • ISBN: 0060577088
    • Brand: Bukowski, Charles
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    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... [Read More]

  • Essential Bukowski: Poetry

    • ASIN: 0062565281
    • ISBN: 0062565281
    • Brand: Ecco Press
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powe... [Read More]

  • You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

    • UPC: 884587089555
    • ASIN: 0876856830
    • ISBN: 9780876856833
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Black Sparrow Press

    Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

  • Love is a Dog From Hell

    • ASIN: 0876853629
    • ISBN: 0876853629
    • Brand: Ecco Press
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

  • War All the Time (Poems 1981-1984)

    • ASIN: 0876856377
    • ISBN: 9780876856376
    • Brand: Ecco Press
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    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.

  • Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems

    • ASIN: 0062656511
    • ISBN: 0062656511
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in s... [Read More]

  • Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems

    • ASIN: 0060577045
    • ISBN: 0060577045
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the cross. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow on the wall before me. my love what is left of it now must crawl to wherever it can crawl. the strongest know that death is final and the happiest are those gifted ... [Read More]

  • On Cats

    • ASIN: B00SG1EM7C
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    A raw and tenderly funny look at the human-cat relationship, from one of our most treasured and transgressive writers.“The cat is the beautiful devil.”Felines touched a vulnerable spot in Charles Bukowski’s crusty soul. For the writer, there was something majestic and elemental about these inscrutable creatures he admired, sentient beings who... [Read More]

  • Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader

    • ASIN: 0060924586
    • ISBN: 0060924586
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: HarperPerennial

    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.

  • On Drinking

    • ASIN: 0062857932
    • ISBN: 0062857932
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    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 fu... [Read More]

  • On Love

    • ASIN: B00XHRR3YO
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning w... [Read More]

  • The Continual Condition: Poems

    • ASIN: 0061771201
    • ISBN: 0061771201
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski remains a counter-culture icon more than a decade after his death. The Continual Condition is a co... [Read More]

  • Shakespeare Never Did This

    • ASIN: 0876859686
    • ISBN: 0876859686
    • Brand: Brand: HarperCollins e-books
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    An account of Charles Bukowski's 1978 European trip. In 1978 Europe was new territory for Bukowski holding the secrets of his own personal ancestry and origins. En route to his birthplace in Andernach, Germany, he is trailed by celebrity-hunters and paparazzi, appears drunk on French television, blows a small fortune at a Dusseldorf racetrack and s... [Read More]

  • Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

    • ASIN: 0876851383
    • ISBN: 0876851383
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty.

  • Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973

    • ASIN: B000SESBSG
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses

    • ASIN: 0876850050
    • ISBN: 0876850050
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. These poems explore a more emotional side to Charles Bukowski.

  • There's No Business

    • ASIN: 0876856229
    • ISBN: 0876856229
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    Book by Bukowski, Charles

  • Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

    • ASIN: 0876854374
    • ISBN: 9780876854372
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.

  • People Aren't Good (The Crunch by Charles Bukowski)

    Charles Bukowski - Alone with Everybody // Spoken Poetry Inspirational

    So Now? - Poem by Charles Bukowski