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" Sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way : "
Charles Bukowski ; edited by John Martin.
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BL
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1040837
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b795207
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| Main Entry
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Bukowski, Charles.
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| Title & Author
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Sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way : : new poems /\ Charles Bukowski ; edited by John Martin.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Ecco,, ©2003.
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| Page. NO
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395 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0060527358
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: 0060568232
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: 9780060527358
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: 9780060568238
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| Contents
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So you want to be a writer? -- My secret life -- The column -- Commerce -- The Mexican fighters -- This dog -- The great escape -- A quick one -- The old anarchist -- And I still won't vote -- Just trying to do a good deed -- One step removed -- My life as a sitcom -- A mechanical Lazarus -- My god -- After the sandstorm -- Carry on! -- Straw hats -- Drink and wait -- Basking in the evil light -- What can I do? -- Out of the sickroom and into the white blazing sun -- Temporal ease -- You never liked me -- Our big day at the movies -- About competition -- Fingernails -- Iron -- Extraterrestrial visitor -- Small talk -- Too sweet -- Work-fuck problems -- Observations on music -- Fly boy -- Unblinking grief -- Houses and dark streets -- The joke is on the sun -- Like a polluted river flowing -- Girlfriends -- Escape 1942 -- A strange horse poem -- The longest snake in the world -- The niceties -- Time to water the plants and feed the cat -- I'm flattered -- Neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane -- Show business -- Pop! -- The interview -- Re-union -- Genius unfettered -- Bob -- Bearclaw morning -- Death and transfiguration -- Warriors in this place -- A sickness? -- A fine night -- Riots -- Venice Beach -- The con job -- Looking back -- The love poems of Catullus -- Dream girl -- Empties -- The landlady -- About the mail -- Have you ever pulled a lion's tail? -- Who needs it? -- Tight black pants -- The weirdest day -- Burning bright -- The death of a hero -- Hooked -- Found poems -- Runaway inflation -- The significance was obscure -- Cracking the odds -- Working through it all -- Giving thanks -- Los Angeles -- 2,294 -- Why do you write so many poems about death? -- Evidence -- A wise ass -- The dressmaker -- Lunch in Beverly Hills -- She was really mad -- A tree, a road, a toad -- In one ear and out the other -- Excuses -- Bygone days -- In a lady's bedroom -- Model friend -- The invitation -- Hollywood hustle -- Buddha Chinaski says -- Like Lazarus -- Soft and fat like summer roses -- In transit -- "Dear Mr. Chinaski" -- Silverfish -- The popularity kid -- Death and white glue -- Fun times: 1930 -- My bully -- Ow ow ow -- The singers -- The march -- The way things are -- Words for you -- Strictly bullshit -- Written before I got one -- Straight on -- Remember this -- Now see here -- Little poem -- Gertrude up the stairway, 1943 -- Where was I? -- Sloppy day -- Note on the telephone -- At the edge -- Heads without faces, seen in all the places -- Coming awake -- The simple truth -- Here and now -- Crazy world -- Good stuff -- Respite -- The horse player -- Displaced -- In search of a hero -- Escapade -- Burning, burning -- Upon reading an interview with a best-selling novelist -- Nothing to it -- This place -- A.D. 701-762 -- Regrets of a sort -- Too young -- Listening to the radio at 1:35 a.m -- Unclassical symphony -- Dinner for free -- A song from the 70's -- 188 -- War some of the time -- At last -- Misbegotten paradise -- My big night on the town -- Nobody but you -- Like a dolphin.
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| Abstract
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Ecco releases a new book of unpublished poems from the late Charles Bukowski, one of America's best-known contemporary writers and its most influential andimitated poet.
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American poetry-- 20th century.
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American poetry.
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.54
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PS3552.U4S54 2003
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18.06bcl
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