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Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bukowski, Charles
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski.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.
- Contents:
- God's man
- not normal
- classical
- the puking lady
- depression kid
- burlesque
- first love
- mountain
- field exercises
- what will the neighbors think?
- full circle
- a place in Philly
- the Kenyon Review and other matters
- big night on the town
- total madness
- on the bum
- society should realize
- madman
- nazi
- 16 Jap machine gun bullets
- bar stool
- the mirror game
- liar, liar, pants on fire!
- the inspection
- somewhere in Texas
- city boy
- the strange morning outside the bar
- a 15 boy and a 1500 casket
- rosary
- the smirking dark
- two crazies
- a note on the masses
- Lord Byron
- the weak
- a tough time
- some luck, somehow
- art class
- payoff
- ding-dong
- AFDC for you and me
- I know you
- bone palace ballet
- oh
- what can you do?
- my friend, the parking lot attendant
- last will and testament
- 12 minutes to post
- in the center of the action
- the fool
- the rock
- ah
- room 106
- in other words
- the horseplayer
- the big one
- the parade
- bum on the loose
- going away
- stag
- late payment
- 2 horse collars
- counsel
- the fighter
- my worst rejection slip
- 40,000
- coffeeshop
- poetry readings
- journey to the end
- upon reading a critical review
- the beautiful lady
- black
- my style
- dead
- a re-evaluation
- snake-eyes
- our world
- how to get rid of the purists
- a curious thing
- the finger
- don't forget
- last call
- undecent
- one of those
- candy-ass
- the word
- please
- good night, sweet prince
- Dreiser wasn't so hot either
- cruising
- the way it is
- a final word on no final word
- each man's hell is different
- the powers that be
- clever
- the poem
- my mail
- walking with the dead
- up through the night
- the fool dines out
- hey, hey, hey
- band-aid
- the dangling carrot
- preparation
- freeway
- the new homeless
- the mail
- killing life
- wait, it will find us
- the x-factor
- evaluation
- the young
- no return address
- yes sirree!
- snapshot (1985)
- finished?
- the voice of Chinaski
- quotable
- interview
- the lady who looks forever young
- an answer
- a model
- my companion
- the barometer
- the rivers
- dark, and darker
- the room
- the two toughest
- the darkening light
- those good people
- horse fly
- night cap
- action
- playtime
- poem for my 71st birthday
- slow night
- the racetrack salutes you!
- alone
- the joke
- Glasgow
- owl
- Dostoevsky
- my computer
- thanks to the computer
- safe
- 3 blacks
- life like a big tender glove
- the old guy in the piano bar
- nights and years
- quiet in a quiet night
- a little cafe on 6th street
- death in modern age
- too hot
- the last song
- reunion
- disgusting
- Bach, come back
- the modern life
- mailbag
- self-invited
- old
- the young poets
- Belfast
- the dream
- returning to an old love
- cool fur
- old?
- a problem
- taken
- welcome darkness
- Bach
- great jazz
- a moment
- wondrous
- fact
- there.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- OCLC:
- 1393304803
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