The New Buk

A Booklist review occurs early in the development of a book's public life.  The People Look Like Flowers At Last won't go on sale until March 27th, but here's an excerpt from the early verdict:

"The purpotedly 'fifth and final' posthumous collection of Bukowski's inimitable poetry is also the ninth collection of it published since his 1994 demise...Nearly all [the poems] are amazingly funny, mordant, rueful, raffish, sad, resigned; all attest as firm a dedication to the lower case as that of e.e. cummings.  Standouts?  Turn to "the dwarf with a punch" in section 1; the epical "Rimbaud be damned" in section 2; "I never bring my wife," with its sublime apothegm about the lonely, in section 4.  Bet you'll then read the rest."

If you've got the Buk-itch, a medically recognized condition, balm the burn at www.charlesbukowski.info - a site for fans.

Comments

[tao]

i like his titles, they aren't cliches

i feel really strange when people name their books cliches like 'don't look back' or something

there are three levels of titles

1. cliche
2. not a cliche but has little or no meaning if by itself
3. not a cliche and has meaning and can be read on its own

thank you for your time

[Mike]

you're welcome to it.

though meaning can be identified one moment but not the next. and the sentence before this can be simultaneously cliche and genuine when considered from separate perspectives.

whenever a comment is vague, I fall in the gaps.

wooo wooo.