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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck.

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Twentieth-Century American Poetry Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bukowski, Charles
Contributor:
Black Sparrow Press.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American prose literature--20th century.
American prose literature.
American poetry--20th century.
American poetry.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty.
Contents:
a free 25 page booklet
the smoking car
the world's greatest loser
the garbageman
girl in a miniskirt reading the bible
moyamensing prison
notes upon the flaxen aspect
funhouse
another academy
a day at the oak tree meet
rain
the colored birds
another lousy 10 percenter
making it
drunk ol' bukowski drunk
the poetry reading
slim killers
the last days of the suicide kid
bang bang
5 men in black passing my window
the poet's muse
somebody
story and poem
and the moon and the stars and the world
get the nose
my landlady and my landlord
bad night
hogs in the sky
the white poets
the black poets
millionaires
poetry
the painter
the inquisitor
my friend william
300 poems
lifting weights at 2 a.m.
reality
earthquake
the good life at o'hare airport
the golfers
the mockingbird
ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha
a fine day and the world looks good
vacancy
3:16 and one half
the rat
hot
radio
ariel
the passing of a dark gray moment
consummation of grief
those sons of bitches
the hunt
the big fire
ww 2
ants
he wrote in lonely blood
six chink fishermen
burning
a sound in the brush
the wild
4th of july
carnival
99 degrees
happy new year
the shoelace
chilled green
life.
American matador
I saw an old-fashioned whore today
poem for barbara, poem for jane
short order
the dwarf
merry christmas
marina
one with dante
an interesting night
a threat to my immortality
climax
a man's woman
tight pink dress
more or less, for julie
this is the way it goes and goes and goes
left with the dog
praying for a best seller
that one
have you ever kissed a panther?
2 carnations
man and woman in bed at ten p.m.
the answer
a split
power failure
snake in the watermelon
style
the shower
if we take
Notes:
Preliminaries omitted.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-06-188187-2
0-06-147199-2
OCLC:
1393305403

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