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The People Look Like Flowers At Last - Charles Bukowski

By Charles Bukowski

Release Date: 2009-10-13

Genre: Poetry

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“if you read this after I am dead

It means I made it”

-“The Creation Coffin”

The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski.

In it, he speaks on topics ranging from horse racing to military elephants, lost love to the fear of death.  He writes extensively about writing, and about talking to people about writers such as Camus, Hemingway, and Stein.  He writes about war and fatherhood and cats and women.

Free from the pressure to present a consistent persona, these poems present less of an aggressively disruptive character, and more a world-weary and empathetic person.

This final collection offers a rare look into Bukowski’s unfiltered world:
Raw and Honest Writing: Unflinching poems on love, loss, death, and survival, pulled from the depths of Bukowski’s final years.The Dirty Old Man Persona: Glimpses of the iconic, hard-drinking poet alongside a quieter, more world-weary and empathetic man few ever saw.Everyday Life and Literature: Meditations on horse racing and hangovers sit side-by-side with thoughts on Hemingway, Camus, and the brutal craft of writing.Iconic American Poetry: The definitive last word from the counter-culture legend, completing a lifetime of work that redefined the genre.

The People Look Like Flowers At Last - Charles Bukowski

By Charles Bukowski

Release Date: 2009-10-13

Genre: Poetry

4.5 (7 ratings)
Read Download
“if you read this after I am dead

It means I made it”

-“The Creation Coffin”

The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski.

In it, he speaks on topics ranging from horse racing to military elephants, lost love to the fear of death.  He writes extensively about writing, and about talking to people about writers such as Camus, Hemingway, and Stein.  He writes about war and fatherhood and cats and women.

Free from the pressure to present a consistent persona, these poems present less of an aggressively disruptive character, and more a world-weary and empathetic person.

This final collection offers a rare look into Bukowski’s unfiltered world:
Raw and Honest Writing: Unflinching poems on love, loss, death, and survival, pulled from the depths of Bukowski’s final years.The Dirty Old Man Persona: Glimpses of the iconic, hard-drinking poet alongside a quieter, more world-weary and empathetic man few ever saw.Everyday Life and Literature: Meditations on horse racing and hangovers sit side-by-side with thoughts on Hemingway, Camus, and the brutal craft of writing.Iconic American Poetry: The definitive last word from the counter-culture legend, completing a lifetime of work that redefined the genre.

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Post Office

Ham on Rye

Women

Factotum

Love is a Dog From Hell

Essential Bukowski

What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

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Hot Water Music

Hollywood

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

On Love

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

The Pleasures of the Damned

On Writing

South of No North

On Cats

Shakespeare Never Did This

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses

sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way

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Betting on the Muse

War All the Time

The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

Run with the Hunted

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

Slouching Toward Nirvana

Barfly - The Movie

On Drinking

The Continual Condition

Bone Palace Ballet

The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain

The Captain is Out to Lunch

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Play the Piano

Screams from the Balcony

Septuagenarian Stew

New Poems Book One

The Roominghouse Madrigals

Storm for the Living and the Dead

Open All Night

Living On Luck

New Poems Book Two

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