The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems - Softcover

Bukowski, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060577088 ISBN 13: 9780060577087

Publisher: Ecco, 2014

Synopsis

Our fifth and final collection of posthumous work by Charles Bukowski, Americas most imitated and influential poet--now in paperback.

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From the Back Cover:

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
nothing,
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.

—from "fingernails; nostrils; shoelaces"

About the Author:

Charles Bukowski is one of Americas best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, PULP (1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0060577088
• ISBN 13: 9780060577087
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320