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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780060577087
ISBN: 0060577088
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: January 01, 2008
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 270159
Studio: Ecco
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the
cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures;
Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job
as a waitress; and
the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he
giggled up through the
soot.
I walked miles through the city and recognized
nothing as a giant claw ate at my
stomach while the inside of my head felt
airy as if I was about to go
mad.
its not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing,
theres no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.
—from 'fingernails; nostrils; shoelaces'
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Mighty Fine Bukowski Collection
Read it front to back, back to front, or dip in and step out at your leisure. I keep it close at hand for a Bukowski fix and it always does me right.
Rating:  - very pleased
For me this is one of the best books of prose or poetry I have read. I ear marked several. This is a now one of my favorite books.
Rating: - And it is the end
Sad to say, this book exhausts the remainder of Buk's poetry. The work is not as strong as earlier books, not as pointed. But as he would have understood, all ends. So what else is new? There are some strong poems: a eulogy, "legs"("she was a great woman/with great legs/but she found life too hard/she died 34 years ago and/I haven't seen/legs like that/since/and I have never stopped/looking"); one on fame and its burdens "I never bring my wife"("I would like to be human/if only they would let ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780060577087
ISBN: 0060577088
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: January 01, 2008
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 270159
Studio: Ecco