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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9780876851913
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: May 31 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.93 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.--Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.
The poems in the first three sections of this book were published in three volumes: It Catches My Heart in its Hands, Crucifix in a Deathhand and At Terror Street and Agony Way.
Charles Bukowski wrote in his introduction Looking at these poems written between 1955 and 1973 I like (for one reason or another) the last poems best. I am pleased with this. I have, of course, no idea what shape my future poems will take, or even if I will write any, because I have no idea how long I will go on living, but since I began writing poetry quite late in life, at the age of 35, I like to think they'll give me a few extra years now, at this end. Meanwhile, the poems that follow will have to do.
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