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    sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

    By Charles Bukowski

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061979972
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    sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
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    Charles Bukowski

    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.

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    • 2/5
      As a poem collection, meh. But that title, man! Stroke of Taoist genius.
    • 4/5
      A great taste of the poetry of Bukowski - an alcoholic bum.
    • 3/5
      Way out there stuff. If you like raging alcoholics with a swearing problem, this poetry is for you!
    • 5/5
      charles bukowski is the shit. for those of you that enjoy the beat poets, he's considered part of the beat generation altough he didn't come along until years later. this book, as well as many of his others, is what's awesome about poetry. definately some refreshing poetry...a step away from typical poetic musings!