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Love Is a Dog From Hell: Poems, 1974-1977.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bukowski, Charles
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Poetry--Male authors.
- Poetry.
- Man-woman relationships--Poetry.
- Man-woman relationships.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
- Summary:
- Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.
- Contents:
- Sandra
- You
- The 6 foot goddess
- I've seen too many glazed-eyed bums
- Sexpot
- Sweet music
- Numb your ass and your brain and your heart
- One of the hottest
- Ashes
- Fuck
- Me
- Another bed
- Trapped
- Tonight
- The escape
- The drill
- Texan
- The spider
- The end of a short affair
- Moaning and groaning
- An almost made up poem
- Blue cheese and chili peppers
- Problems about the other woman
- T.M
- Bee's 5th
- 103 degrees
- Pacific telephone
- 225 pounds
- Turnabout
- One for old snaggle-tooth
- Communion
- Trying to get even
- Chicago
- Quiet clean girls in gingham dresses
- We will taste the islands and the sea
- This poet
- Winter
- What they want
- Iron Mike
- Guru
- The professors
- For Al
- How to be a great writer
- The price
- Alone with everybody
- The 2nd novel
- Chopin Bukowski
- Gloomy lady
- Cockroach
- Who in the hell is Tom Jones?
- Defeat
- Traffic signals
- 462-0614
- Photographs
- Social
- One to the breastplate
- The worst and the best
- Coupons
- Luck
- Dog
- Trench warfare
- The night I fucked my alarm clock
- When I think of myself dead
- Christmas eve, alone
- There once was a woman who put her head into an oven
- Beds, toilets, you and me
- This then
- Imagination and reality
- Stolen
- The meek have inherited
- The insane always loved me
- Big Max
- It's the way you play the game
- On the continent
- 12:18 a.m
- Yellow cab
- How come you're not unlisted?
- Weather report
- Clean old man
- Something
- A plate glass window
- Junkies
- 99 to one
- The crunch
- A horse with greenblue eyes
- Scarlet
- Red up and down
- Like a flower in the rain
- Light brown
- Huge ear rings
- She came out of the bathroom
- A killer
- Longshot
- The promise
- Waving and waving goodbye
- Liberty
- Don't touch the girls
- Dark shades
- Prayer in bad weather
- Melancholia
- A stethoscope case
- Eat your heart out
- The retreat
- I made a mistake
- Girls in pantyhose
- Up your yellow river
- Artists
- I have shit stains in my underwear too
- Hawley's leaving town
- An unkind poem
- The bee
- The most
- Ah
- The girl on the bus stop bench
- I'm getting back to where I was
- A lovely couple
- The strangest sight you ever did see
- In a neighborhood of murder
- Private first class
- Love is a dog from hell
- My groupie
- Now, if you were teaching creative writing
- The good life
- The Greek
- My comrades
- Soul
- A change of habit
- Sitting in a sandwich joint
- Doom and siesta time
- As crazy as I ever was
- Sex
- Dead now
- Twins
- The place didn't look bad
- The little girls
- Rain or shine
- Cold plums
- Girls coming home
- Some picnic
- Bedpans
- The good loser
- An art
- The girls at the green hotel
- A good one
- Shit time
- Madness
- A 56 year old poem
- The beautiful young girl walking past the graveyard
- Beer
- Artist
- My old man
- Fear
- Little tigers everywhere
- After the reading
- About cranes
- A gold pocket watch
- Beach trip
- One for the shoeshine man.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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