What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061873317

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What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski Pdf

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire is the second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski that takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061979972

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sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way by Charles Bukowski Pdf

One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America. Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski’s life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more. Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative – published posthumously, it’s completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski’s lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty. We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0060577088

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The People Look Like Flowers At Last by Charles Bukowski Pdf

the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked miles through the city and recognized nothing as a giant claw ate at my stomach while the inside of my head felt airy as if I was about to go mad. it’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing, there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust. —from "fingernails; nostrils; shoelaces"

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061873041

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You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061979989

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Slouching Toward Nirvana by Charles Bukowski Pdf

in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the cross. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow on the wall before me. my love what is left of it now must crawl to wherever it can crawl. the strongest know that death is final and the happiest are those gifted with the shortest journey.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062565303

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Essential Bukowski by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture. Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski’s unvarnished and self-deprecating verse illuminates the deepest and most enduring concerns of the human condition while remaining sharply aware of the day to day. With his acute eye for the ridiculous and the troubled, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience. Gloomy yet hopeful, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace. This is Essential Bukowski.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061882067

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War All the Time by Charles Bukowski Pdf

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter War All the Time is a selection of poetry from the early 1980s. Charles Bukowski shows that he is still as pure as ever but he has evolved into a slightly happier man that has found some fame and love. These poems show how he grapples with his past and future colliding.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061860744

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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski Pdf

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061871436

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Bone Palace Ballet by Charles Bukowski Pdf

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.

Author : Mahvash Mossaed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0979691206

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A Woman Defined by Mahvash Mossaed Pdf

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781782117230

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On Writing by Charles Bukowski Pdf

'If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him . . . There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.' Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life to. Piercing, unsentimental and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with the author's trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos and intimacy. In the previously unpublished letters to editors, friends and fellow writers collected here, Bukowski is brutally frank about the drudgery of work and uncompromising when it comes to the absurdities of life and of art.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781847678874

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The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski Pdf

The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death. Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's long-time editor and the publisher of the legendary Black Sparrow Press, this stands as what Martin calls 'the best of the best of Bukowski'.

Author : Mariana Enriquez
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451495129

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Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez Pdf

The “propulsive and mesmerizing” (The New York Times) story collection by the International Booker–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night—now with a new short story. The short stories of Mariana Enriquez are: “The most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro “Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken.”—The Boston Globe (Best Books of the Year) Electric, disturbing, and exhilarating, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation's troubled history, but among the abandoned houses, black magic, superstitions, lost loves and regrets, there is also friendship, compassion, and humor. Translated by the National Book Award-winning Megan McDowell, these “slim but phenomenal” (Vanity Fair) stories ask the biggest questions of life and show why Mariana Enriquez has become one of the most celebrated new voices in global literature.

Author : Kristen Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455533244

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Walk Through Fire by Kristen Ashley Pdf

The flame never dies . . . Millie Cross knows what it's like to burn for someone. She was young and wild and he was fierce and even wilder-a Chaos biker who made her heart pound. They fell in love at first sight and life was good, until she learned she couldn't be the woman he needed and made it so he had no choice but to walk away. Twenty years later, Millie's chance run-in with her old flame sparks a desire she just can't ignore. And this time, she won't let him ride off . . . Bad boy Logan "High" Judd has seen his share of troubles with the law. Yet it was a beautiful woman who broke him. After ending a loveless marriage, High is shocked when his true love walks back into his life. Millie is still gorgeous, but she's just a ghost of her former self. High's intrigued at the change, but her betrayal cut him deep-and he doesn't want to get burned again. As High sinks into meting out vengeance for Millie's betrayal, he'll break all over again when he realizes just how Millie walked through fire for her man . . .

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061877452

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South of No North by Charles Bukowski Pdf

South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.