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More copies of this ISBNeBook editionsBone Palace Ballet: New Poemsby Charles Bukowski
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Like a great heavyweight in the ring with that final indomitable adversary, Bukowski went down swinging. The 175 posthumously published new poems of Bone Palace Ballet once again prove his mettle, showing the banged-up old champ still on his feet and gamely slugging it out with the inevitable: after this long fightThe life-narrative skills that made Bukowski the finest verse storyteller of his time are still alive and kicking in these verse tales, vivid fragments shored against time's ruin. The dance of death in Bukowski's bone palace takes shape as autobiography: yarns about his Depression childhood and early literary passions (from lusting after his high school English teacher to covertly devouring forbidden books), his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant working on the last bottle of...and finally the bittersweet later years, when, having been rendered by history "just / another old fart in a world of old farts," he nonetheless remains able to look back over his shoulder at fate with a measure of undefeatable defiance. Review:"This posthumous collection of poems by Bukowski is a wonderful swan song...readers will see Bukowski at his best." Library Journal Review:"Each poem is a little nugget of roughneck-intellectual autobiography or attitude...and each is pretty enjoyable, especially with a brew at hand." Ray Olson, Booklist Synopsis: This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance. About the Author 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 Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived 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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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