You get so alone at times that it just makes sense / Charles Bukowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bukowski, Charles.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

313 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 1986.

Contents:

1813-1883.

red Mercedes.

retired.

working it out.

beasts bounding through time.

trashcan lives.

lost generation.

no help for that.

my non-ambitious ambition.

education.

downtown L.A.

another casualty.

driving test.

that's why funerals are so sad.

cornered.

bumming with Jane.

darkness.

termites of the page.

good time.

still trapeze.

January.

sunny side down.

man in the brown suit.

magician, gone ...

well, that's just the way it is.

chemistry of things.

rift.

my friend, the parking lot attendant.

miracle.

non-urgent poem.

my first affair with that older woman.

freeway life.

player.

p.o. box 11946, Fresno, Calif. 93776.

poor Al.

for my ivy league friends:

helping the old.

bad times at the 3rd and Vermont hotel.

Master Plan.

garbage.

my vanishing act.

let's make a deal.

16-bit Intel 8088 chip.

zero.

putrefaction.

I'll take it

supposedly famous.

last shot.

whorehouse.

starting fast:

crazy truth.

drive through hell.

for the concerned:

funny guy.

shoes.

coffee.

together.

finest of the breed.

close to greatness.

stride.

final story.

friends within the darkness.

death sat on my knee and cracked with laughter.

oh yes.

O tempora! O mores!

passing of a great one.

wine of forever.

true.

Glenn Miller.

Emily Bukowski.

some suggestions.

invasion.

hard times.

longshot.

concrete.

Gay Paree?

I thought the stuff tasted worse than usual.

blade.

boil.

not listed.

I'm not a misogynist.

lady in the castle.

relentless as the tarantula.

their night.

huh?

it's funny, isn't it? #1.

it's funny, isn't it? #2.

beautiful lady editor.

about the PEN conference.

everybody talks too much.

me and my buddy.

song.

practice.

love poem to a stripper.

my buddy.

Jon Edgar Webb.

thank you

magic curse.

party's over.

no nonsense.

escape.

wearing the collar.

cat is a cat is a cat is a cat.

marching through Georgia.

gone.

I meet the famous poet.

seize the day.

shrinking island.

magic machine.

those girls we followed home.

fractional note.

following.

tragic meeting.

ordinary poem.

from an old dog in his cups ...

let 'em go.

trying to make it.

death of a splendid neighborhood.

you get so alone at times that it just makes sense.

good gang, after all.

this.

hot.

late late late poem.

3 a.m. games.

someday I'm going to write a primer for crippled saints but meanwhile.

help wanted.

sticks and stones ...

working.

over done.

our laughter is muted by their agony.

murder.

what am I doing?

nervous people.

working out.

how is your heart?

forget it.

quiet.

it's ours.

Notes:

"This edition is printed in paper wrappers; there are 500 hardcover trade copies; 400 special hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author; & 126 numbered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original signed print by Charles Bukowski"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is hardcover edition, twelfth printing, 1998.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is paperback edition, thirteenth printing, 2000.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 is paperback first edition.

ISBN:

0876856830

9780876856833

0876856849

9780876856840

0876856857

9780876856857

OCLC:

13700955