Bring Me Your Love
WAY Too Expensive for just a tidbit of work!: Compared to the many beefy, thick collections available from both of these creators, this book is horribly anemic! Crumb fans get 5 drawings. Buk readers get 6 pages. If you think that's worth $6, then you [... more]
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1933 Was a Bad Year
Style Is Everything: If I tell you that this story has been told before, don't let that put you off. This is a book that breaks your heart and it can do that because of Fante's talent as a writer. This was my first exposure to Fante and I haven't looked [... more]
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Women
It Really Made Me Laugh: Women by Charles Bukowski is definitely a book worth owning, if you don't mind the kind of book that is often a little vulgar, raw, and yes "real." The story revolves, of course, around Buk's relationships with women, [... more]
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The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems
Worth a smile now and again, but not his best.: Charles Bukowski, The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps (Black Sparrow, 2001) Can a person be great and yet not too good at the same time? I ask myself that pretty much every time I open another book of Charles [... more]
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Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946 - 1996
Poetry for the zeroes: This compilation covers an extraordinary 50 years of poetry from James Broughton. Unlike most poets of the twentieth century, Broughton actually writes rhymed poems. They work, too. He has a lyrical touch missing from most modern [... more]
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An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes: (And What ...
Author: Andrei Codrescu Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9781574231595 ISBN: 1574231596 Number Of Pages: 356 Publication Date: 2001-05 [... more]
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Dangling in the Tournefortia
some of bukowski's best work: classic bukowski long narrative thoughtful poetry carefully planned and executed regardless of how he may have described his own techniqe here the ending short poem is classic gripping reality: an amazing look at the [... more]
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Looking for Genet : Literary Essays and Reviews
Author: Alfred Chester Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54 EAN: 9780876858721 ISBN: 0876858728 Number Of Pages: 260 Publication Date: 1992-05 [... more]
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Apes of God: Novel
the Planet of the Apes of God: Wyndham Lewis's ( founder of VORTICISM= the only British Avant-Garde movement of the 20th century)Apes of God is a vicious satire exposing the posture and posuers of the art world then (circa 1920's London/Paris/New York et. [... more]
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Maxfield Parrish : Early and New Poems
fine twentieth century verse: Black Sparrow Press has done it again. They seem to be the avatars of modern poetry. Eileen Myles is another fine living poet to get the Black Sparrow treatment. This collection combines both old poems from the 7os as well [... more]
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Love is a Dog from Hell
A Great Collection -- from a Great Poet!: One of the most renowned poets of the 20th Century came not from the Academia but rather from the dive bars in Los Angeles. Charles Bukowski began to unleash his gutteral cry in the mid-50's. By the time he died [... more]
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The Brotherhood of the Grape
stong enough to lead me to his earlier works: Charles Bukowski praised John Fante on his Hostage cd. That was enough to capture my interest The Brotherhood Of The Grape seems to do for Italian-Americans what Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes did for the [... more]
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