Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (PDF)

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One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America.Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski’s life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more.Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative – published posthumously, it’s completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski’s lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty.We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap from neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillaneyoung young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming inyour cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, NorthAvenue 21, Lincoln Heightssifting through the madness for the Word, the line the way, hoping for a check from somewhere, dreaming of a letter from a great editor: Chinaski, you don’t know how long we’ve beenwaiting for you!no chance at all From the Back Cover from “neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane”young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars,brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming inyour cheap room,you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, NorthAvenue 21, Lincoln Heightssifting through the madness for the Word, the line the way,hoping for a check from somewhere,dreaming of a letter from a great editor:”Chinaski, you don’t know how long we’ve beenwaiting for you!”no chance at all. 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 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Buy it. Read it. Feel it. Love it. And then read it again.Bukowski may be one of my favorite authors, not only for the style and way he writes,but also the raw truth in what he writes.No flitty,embellished, wordy trying-to-make-poerty crap.It’s real. And it has actual meaning.You don’t have to be a scholar to see how great of a writer he is.And you don’t have to be a scholar to understand it.Because he’s just like the rest of us, he’s human.

⭐The book was great as is all things Bukowski but it had lots of notes written inside. It sort of ruined the experience for me because they were really annoying comments. Should have bought it new.

⭐great book

⭐Great go-to book whenever I may be feeling down. I read a couple Charles Bukowski poems, and all of a sudden, my life doesn’t seem so bad. At all.

⭐Great read

⭐Great book, great edition. Has that great book smell

⭐Everything Charles Bukowski writes is poetic genius. His sense of humor (if it is even humor) is so realistic and cynical it invokes the raw emotions I wasn’t sure I even had. His work, over his writing career, changed as he changed. This dirty old man moves me in ways only a dirty old man should.Sex, drugs, alcohol, women’s names he forgets, all of it is simply amazing.If you don’t like Bukowski, then I’m not sure you should be allowed to live.

⭐BUOWSKI FANS WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED

⭐Brilliantly crafted poetry that touches on all aspects of life. Read when you’re feeling robust, or when you’re falling apart. This guy speaks from his core.

⭐goog book!

⭐Masterpiece

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