| Description |
216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Mine -- Layover -- The day I kicked a bankroll out the window -- I taste the ashes of your death -- Love is a piece of paper torn to bits -- To the whore who took my poems -- Shoes -- A real thing, a good woman -- One night stand -- The mischief of expiration -- Love is a form of selfishness -- For Jane: with all the love I had, which was not enough -- For Jane -- Notice -- My real love in Athens -- Sleeping woman -- A party here-- machineguns, tanks, an army fighting against men on rooftops -- For the 18 months of Marina Louise -- Poem for my daughter -- Answer to a note found in the mailbox -- All the love of me goes out to her (for A.M.) -- An answer to a critic of sorts -- The shower -- 2 carnations -- Have you ever kissed a panther? -- The best love poem I can write at the moment -- Balling -- Hot -- Smiling, shining, singing -- Visit to Venice -- Love poem to Marina -- I can hear the sound of human lives being ripped to pieces -- For those 3 -- Blue moon, oh bleweeww mooooon how I adore you! -- The first love -- Love -- Raw with love (for N.W.) -- A love poem for all the women I have known -- Fax -- One for the shoeshine man -- Who in the hell is Tom Jones? -- Sitting in a sandwich joint just off the freeway -- A definition -- An acceptance slip -- The end of a short affair -- One for old snaggle-tooth -- Prayer for a whore in bad weather -- I made a mistake -- The 6 foot goddess (for S.D.) -- Quiet clean girls in gingham dresses -- Tonight -- Pacific telephone -- Hunchback -- Mermaid -- Yes -- 2nd. street, near Hollister, in Santa Monica -- The trashing of the dildo -- A place to relax -- Snap snap -- Hello, Barbara -- Curson McCullers -- Jane and Droll -- We get along -- It was all right -- My walls of love -- Eulogy to a hell of a dame -- Love -- Eulogy -- 40 years ago in that hotel room -- A magician, gone -- No luck for that -- Love poem to a stripper -- Love crushed like a dead fly -- Shoes -- Pulled down shade -- Trollius and trellises -- Turn -- Oh, I was a ladies' man! -- Love poem -- A dog -- The strong man -- The bluebird -- The dressmaker -- Confessions. |
| Summary |
"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,"--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Love poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Debritto, Abel.
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| Added Title |
Charles Bukowski on love |
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Poems. Selections.
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| ISBN |
9780062396037 |
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006239603X |
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