The last night of the earth poems. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charles Bukowski.
• Other Names: Bukowski, Charles
• Contents: 1. My wrists are rivers, my fingers are words -- Jam -- Two toughs -- My German buddy -- Happy birthday -- The telephone -- Begging -- The feel of it -- The greatest actor of our day -- Days like razors, nights full of rats -- In and out of the dark -- Be kind -- The man with the beautiful eyes -- A strange day -- Trollius and trellises -- Air and light and time and space -- The eagle of the heart -- Bright red car -- Moving toward the 21st century -- The lady and the mountain lion -- A laugh a minute -- Hello, Hamsun -- Death is smoking my cigars -- Hock shops -- Hell is a closed door -- Pulled down shade -- Before AIDS -- Hunk of rock -- Poetry -- Dinner, 1933 -- Such luck -- Flophouse -- Hand-outs -- Those mornings -- Everything you touch -- Car wash -- The flashing of the odds -- Poetry contest -- Peace -- The bluebird. 2. Living too long takes more than time -- Going out -- The replacements -- The genius -- A poet in New York -- No sale -- This -- Now -- In error -- Confession -- Mugged -- The writer -- They don't eat like us -- Let me tell you -- Blasted apart with the first breath -- Elvis lives -- My buddy in valet parking at the racetrack -- See here, you -- Spark -- The science of physiognomy -- Victory -- Edward Sbragia -- Wandering in the cage -- The pack -- Question and answer -- Fan letter -- Hold on, it's a belly laugh -- Finished -- Zero -- Eyeless through space -- Tag up and hold -- Upon this time -- Downtown Billy -- 8 count -- Ill -- Only one Cervantes -- That I have known the dead -- Are you drinking? -- "D" -- In the bottom -- The creative act -- A suborder of naked buds -- Companion -- You know and I know and thee know. 3. the sun slants in like a golden sword as the odds grow shorter -- Show biz -- Darkness & ice -- The big ride -- Small cafe -- Washrag -- Sitting with the IBM -- My buddy, the buddha -- The interviewers -- Freaky time -- The aliens -- Shock treatment -- Between races -- Splashing -- Darkling -- Celine with cane and basket -- No more, no less -- The lost and the desperate -- The bully -- Downers -- Get close enough and you can't see -- The beggars -- The old horseplayer -- Post time -- Off and on -- Balloons -- Recognized -- Them and us -- Luck was not a lady -- The editor -- Duck and forget it -- Snapshots at the track -- X-idol -- Heat wave -- We ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain -- Crime and punishment -- The soldier, his wife and the bum -- Bonaparte's Retreat -- Flat tire -- Oh, I was a ladies' man! -- Inactive volcano -- Creative writing class -- Cool black air -- The jackals -- Warm light. 4. In the shadow of the rose -- Dinosauria, we -- Cut while shaving -- A good job -- Last seat at the end -- My Uncle Jack -- The area of pause -- My first computer poem -- Rossini, Mozart and Shostakovich -- It's a shame -- What a writer -- Hangovers -- They are everywhere -- War -- The idiot -- This rejoinder -- Hemingway never did this -- Surprise time again -- Young in New Orleans -- The damnation of Buk -- Charles the Lion-Hearted -- Within the dense overcast -- Corsage -- Classical music and me -- Transport -- Betrayed -- Torched-out -- The word -- Shooting the moon in the eye -- Nirvana -- An invitation -- Batting order -- The open canvas -- In the shadow of the rose.
• Publisher Details: New York : HarperCollins e-books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (408 pages)
• Subjects: 811.5/4; Poetry -- American -- General; American poetry; Poetry, Modern; Poetry, Modern -- 20th century; American poetry -- 20th century; American poetry; American poetry
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780061857171; 0061857173
• Related ISBNs: 9780876858639
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.