You Get So Alone at Times That It Jus..., Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That It Jus..., Charles Bukowski
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You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

Author: Charles Bukowski

Narrator: Stephen Mendel

Unabridged: 3 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 11/19/2024

Synopsis

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter"well, that's just the way it is..."
sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted--
stretched there upon my bed
in the dark
looking upward at the ceiling
I get what many will consider an
obnoxious thought:
it's still nice to be
Bukowski.

About Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on April 25, 2020

I have had this book on my bedside table for months, with a few other books, mainly poetry that I try to read poem by poem, not to rush the experience of this tiny crystalized form of literary meditation. But not to lead you astray; Bukowski is not Neruda or Mary Oliver, a poet of great depth. Buk i......more

Goodreads review by Suhaib on February 20, 2018

Imagine an old man (+45) with his four cats, living in a shabby one-room apartment with occasional girlfriends who come and go—that man is Charles Bukowski, otherwise known as the poet of the lowlifes. Most poems are about drinking, getting wasted, writing, loneliness, failure, street fights, occasi......more

Goodreads review by Fenia on May 30, 2015

Bukowski is a genious. enough said. *.* ♥......more

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