"but as God said,crossing his legs,I see where I have made plenty of poetsbut not so very muchpoetry."(from 'To the whore who took my poems')bukowski is a panacea for all that ails contemporary poetry. ( )

This was my first Bukowski book, given to me by Mom some 30+ years ago with the hope that I would start reading poetry. It did. It also opened my world to his crazy world. I tried to emulate him. I'm sober now but I got a lot unpublished poetry and stories that I share with family, friends and AA meetings. ( )

I don't really go for this cultivating-the-image-of-the-bohemian-poet/bastard stuff. Yeah, I get it, no one loves you because you're an asshole; can the next poem be about something different please? It's well written for what it is, though, and a fast read. ( )

my favorite collection of bukowski poems by far ( )

http://bukowski.net/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bukowski.h...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_... ( )