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These 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski's that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994.
- Sales Rank: #1222790 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-03-17
- Released on: 2009-03-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
During his lifetime, Bukowski (1920-94) acquired a global following for his verse and prose depictions of down-and-outs, small-time gamblers and tormented, ambitious failures in his native Los Angeles. The confrontational post-Beat poet and novelist left behind a vast archive of manuscripts, from which this seventh posthumous book of verse has been drawn. The thick volume (like his other books) includes plenty of casual anecdotes, fiery catalogues of others' woes, and dejected musings on his own persistent drinking, sometime poverty, and mood swings. It includes, too, the off-color language and sexual escapades (some triumphant, most embarrassing) that have always ranked among Bukowski's attractions. His familiar world of "bums and heroes" in "tiny rooms" where "each meal was/ a miracle and/ the week's rent/ more so" comes to the fore quickly, and as usual, there's something to it. Heroes range from anonymous pals to Toulouse-Lautrec and Delmore Schwartz. Some poems examine Bukowski's problematic attitudes toward sex and romance: "no matter what woman I'm with," Bukowski declares in one such poem, "people ask me,/ are you still with her?" Bukowskian figures more typically find solace at racetracks, with whores, with liquor ("I drank and I drank and/ I drank in my room") and finally in writing, which lets them "kiss the sweet lips of this dirty/ world/ goodbye." Nobody will be converted to Bukowski by these verses, but that's hardly the point: like William Burroughs or Jim Morrison, Bukowski in death retains the tenacious (and mostly youthful) fan base he gathered in life. (Dec.) Forecast: Bukowski's books are perhaps best known among booksellers for the rate at which they are stolen. Black Sparrow has done well so far with each new salvo of Bukowskiana; there's no reason to think this book of poems will fall short of previous marks. (Booksellers might want to keep them behind the counter with a note tacked to the 'B' shelfAadds to the mystique.)
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From Booklist
Black Sparrow says it has still more uncollected Bukowski in the barrel, but much in the sixth posthumous gathering of the roughneck bard's leavings sure sounds like bottom-scrapings. For instance, the poem that ends, "I am a beautiful person. / and you are. / and she is. / as is the yellow thumping of the sun and the glory of the world." It is hard to believe Buk would have tolerated the last line's personification of thumping and glory while he was alive, or the poem's egregious lack of irony. Yet this, including several of the bad poems, is way funnier than practically any other poet's stuff these days. Buk's life--full of blue-collar jobs, smoking and drinking, playing the horses, basking in classical music on the radio, going on tears naked, shacking up with a succession of floozies and the occasional wife, midnight typing, and lots of driving--was a dingy fountain of low-life literary comedy. There are better books for one's first taste of Bukowski, but this one will do fine for connoisseurs. Ray Olson
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Review
2 Buddies
20 Bucks
Age And Youth
Ah, Ah, Ah
Aids
All God's Children Got Trouble
All That
Another Love Poem
An Answer To An Eleventh Grade Student In Philadelphia
The Arrangement
As Much As I Hate To Use The 'f' Word
At The End Of The Day
At&t
Backups
Batting Slump
The Beautiful Rush
Beauty Gone
Beds, Bathrooms, You And Me
The Beer Bottle Blow
The Best Men Are Strongest Alone
Big Time
Big Time Loser
Black Sun
Broken
Bruckner: 2
Butch Van Gogh
A Certain Pride Here
Chatterton Took Rat Poison And Left The Rest Of Us In Peace
Chinaski
Come Back
Compassion
Competition
A Computer Now
A Day So Flat You Could Roll Marbles On It
Dead Dog
The Death Of An Era
Dinner, Pain & Transport
Dogfight Over L.a.
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree With Anybody Else But Me
Down By The Sea, The Beautiful Sea
Edith Sent Us
Empty Goblet
Event
The Fall
Fame
A Fan Letter
Flight Time To Nowhere
For Some Friends
Four Young Gang-bangers
Fungoes
Garden Talk
A Good Show
Good Times
A Grounder To The Shortstop
The Guitar Player
Hardly Nirvana
He Also Flosses Every Day
Hello
Here We Go Again
The Hero And The Shortstop
Hot Dog
Huh
Hummingbird Chance
Hymn From The Hurricane
I Don't Care
I Don't Want Cleopatra
I Meet A Vegetarian
I Was Her Lover
I'm A Failure
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
An Interview
It's Difficult When Bananas Eat Monkeys
It's Slow Tonight
Jack
Jane And Prince
Late Night
Lazy In San Pedro
Liberated Woman And Liberated Man
Like A Movie
Lioness
A Little Spot Of Senseless Yellow
Little Theater In Hollywood
Locks
Look Here!
Loosely Loosely
A Lost Soul
Love For The First Whore
Lunch
Madness?
Manx
Merry, Merry
Miracle Man
More Mail
Mother And Princess Tina
My 3 Best Friends
My Doctor
My Father Wanted Me To Be A Mechanical Draftsman But
My Favorite Movie
Night Sweats
The Nile Runs North
No Dice
Novels
Now She's Free
An Old Love
Old Man With A Cane
The Old Pinch Hitter
On Bums And Heroes
Open All Night
The Other Room
Over-population
Pale Pink Porsche
A Place To Go
A Place To Hang Out
The Players
Pleased To Meet You
A Poem For Swingers
Poem, Poem, Poem, Poem
Polish Sausage
Popcorn In The Dark
Problems In The Checkout Line
Puzzle
Raw
The Reply
Rest Period
Royal Standard
Running On Empty
Saturday Afternoon
Schubert
A Screening
Searching For What?
Secret Laughter
Share The Pain
Short Story
Social Butterfly
Some Of My Fathers
Somewhere It's 12:41 A.m.
The Soulless Life
Soundless
The Spanish Gate
Stark Dead
The Strange Workings Of The Dark Life
The Stranger
Swinging From The Hook
Swivel Chair
Terrorists
There's One In Every Bar
This Habit
This Is A Fact
Thoughts On Being 71
To Jane Cooney Baker, Died 1-22-62
Token Drunk
Too Dark
Toulouse
Troubles In The Night
Uncrowned
Until
An Unusual Woman
Upon Phoning An X-wife Not Seen For 20 Years
Wall Clock
The Way It Is Now
We Can't
We Get Along
We're All Gonna Make It
What We Need
Where To Put It
A Woman In Orange
The X-con
The Yellow Pencil
Yes, I Am
Young Love
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Truly poetic
By SPM
Bukowski was the master of the personal detail. In these poems, released after his death, he examines his life with a drunken smile. He digs out the most significant moments of his life at the race track, among old friends, writing at night, listening to classical music, thinking about old girlfriends, and his childhood. He has a knack for mentioning the moments that matter, and leaving out the details that distract you from the point he's making. Every poem is good. This is one of his best books.
The poems are arranged in four sections. As you read, you realize that there's an underlying theme for each section. The first section, for example, is about burying the past. Each poem adds a thin layer to the theme until you feel it. It's quite an experience because it's so unpretentious --- he seems to be telling stories without any connection, but eventually you get the deeper story on your own.
I highly recommend this book. If you haven't read Bukowski's poetry before, this is a good place to start. Long-time fans will find this one a little flat, simply because it doesn't do anything new. They've heard all of these tales before. (But repetition was one of Bukowski's most endearing traits. He used it instead of a formal writing style.) So try Open All Night. You'll be pleased.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Not his best work.
By Robert Beveridge
Charles Bukowski, Open All Night: New Poems (Black Sparrow, 2000)
I note the "new poems" in the title (I don't normally with Buk books) because it's not entirely true. There's at least one poem in here which was published at least fifteen years ago. I know this because I used a piece of it as an epigram to something I wrote in 1992. (It's one of Buk's series of "yes" poems, which started in War All the Time in the early eighties; I can't remember offhand the title of the one reprinted here, though.) But then, I guess one poem in three hundred fifty pages isn't that bad. After all, with the number of three-hundred-plus-page poetic epics that have come out since Buk's death, it's obvious Linda had a whole lot of stuff to go through.
Open All Night is not Buk's strongest work (but then, you have to figure much of the posthumous stuff, written over the fifteen or twenty years before his death, was unpublished for a reason), but every once in a while a piece shines. There are a few poems in here that sounds as if they were written in the late fifties, Buk's strongest period (viz. Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame), and a whole lot that sound as if they weren't. There are a number of unexpected surprises; I strongly suggest reading The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship just before reading this to catch some of the parallels towards the end. This book has the tales in poetic form, Captain has the tales in prose, and the reader can decide which voice works better for him. In my case, the prose took the cake every time, because much of Buk's poetry, towards the end, felt somewhat flabby, at times incoherent.
But, as I said, there are gems, as there are in every book of Bukowski's, and a few of the gems here shine brighter than much of the posthumously-released work. They alone are worth the price of admission. ***
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
My Tom Waits of poetry/prose...
By Jack Dempsey
I find it funny (truthfully, somewhat sad) when others give this piece anything less than five stars and dismiss it is as "not his best" work. On his worst day Buk could have typed one sentence better than a lifetime of the sewage spewed by such people. This collection is definitely a testament to that fact, as others below have astutely recognized.
If you've gotten ANY appreciation for Buk, do not hesitate to add this to your collection. It has some of the finest moments of Buk that I have ever come across, and that is definitely saying alot as I have read most of his work. There are moments contained within the corners of these pages, that are nothing less than inspiring. I certainly will be the first to admit that I cannot find words to desribe it, so I won't even try. Just rest assured that it is well worth your money to get this collection and do not believe the ramblings of others that this is somehow inferior Buk. Buk could simply do no wrong when it came to his craft.
Get this and cherish it.
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