Excellent book of poetry. Bukowski is one of my favourite 20th century poets.

My favorite collection of Bukowski's, of older poems. A lot of variety and depth. ( )

One of the earlier collections of Bukowski's poems. A friend of mine recently let me look at his bootlegged version of 'Factotum' the Matt Dillon movie based on some of Bukowski's experiences. It was very good--maybe not quite as good as Barfly but well worth seeing. In any case it is somewhat my impetus for writing something about Buk's poetry which is always very lucid and at the same time epiphanic by nature. The number of themes may be limited but he more than makes up for it in other ways--his was a legitimate voice of the down and outs and people who work for a living--he always speaks of and about them with insight, empathy and humor. A poet and a writer well worth checking out. ( )