The People Look Like Flowers At Last - New Poems

Charles Bukowski

Sinopsis

“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.

Disponible desde: 13/10/2010.

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