| Open All Night Contributor(s): Bukowski, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1574231359 ISBN-13: 9781574231359 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2002 Annotation: "A testament to a fierce inverted work ethic, a belief in self-help through unending self-attention, a refusal to waste even the smallest table scrap of world or time": that same tenacity and commitment to his art which New York Times critic Jennifer Schuessler found in the Bukowski collection What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (Black Sparrow, 1999) can again be seen in the legendary bard's latest posthumous verse compilation. Several books after his demise, Buk still hasn't lost his revenant power. Think Villon as Lazarus, Celine popping out of the flames, Fante revivified. Written from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994, these 189 recovered poems suggest that even his heaviest adversary, encroaching mortality, never made Bukowski flinch. The courage is undaunted, even if there's a strong hint of rue mixed into these deadpan nightcap comedies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Haiku - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 00060833 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (1.10 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bukowski, Charles: - Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love. |