Open all night : new poems / Charles Bukowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bukowski, Charles.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

361 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 2000.

Summary:

"A testament to a fierce inverted work ethic, a belief in self-help through unending self-attention, a refusal to waste even the smallest table scrap of world or time": that same tenacity and commitment to his art which New York Times critic Jennifer Schuessler found in the Bukowski collection What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (Black Sparrow, 1999) can again be seen in the legendary bard's latest posthumous verse compilation. Several books after his demise, Buk still hasn't lost his revenant power. Think Villon as Lazarus, Celine popping out of the flames, Fante revivified.

Written from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994, these 189 recovered poems suggest that even his heaviest adversary, encroaching mortality, never made Bukowski flinch. The courage is undaunted, even if there's a strong hint of rue mixed into these deadpan nightcap comedies.

Notes:

"This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 1,000 hardcover trade copies; & there are 426 numbered & lettered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray each containing an original serigraph print by Charles Bukowski."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is paperback edition.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is no. 339.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has original serigraph print by Charles Bukowski.

ISBN:

1574231359

1574231367

1574231375

OCLC:

44676139