Absence of the Hero (2010)

Published as a prose collection by City Lights Books, 1/4/2010

Works in this Book

• The Reason Behind Reason - pg. 1 - circa 1946
• Love, Love, Love - pg. 5 - circa 1946
• Cacoethes Scribendi - pg. 8 - circa 1947
• The Rapist's Story - pg. 13 - circa 1957
• 80 Airplanes Don't Put You In The Clear - pg. 25 - circa 1957
• Manifesto: A Call For Our Own Critics - pg. 32 - circa 1960
• Peace, Baby, Is A Hard Sell - pg. 34 - circa 1962
• Examining My Peers - pg. 39
• If I Could Only Be Asleep - pg. 42 - circa 1965
• The Old Pro - pg. 44 - circa 1971
• Review of Ginsberg/Zukofsky - pg. 49
• Bukowski On Bukowski - pg. 56 - 1969
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 59 - 1967
• The Absence Of The Hero - pg. 64
• Christ with Barbecue Sauce - pg. 68
• Ah, Liberation, Liberty, Lillies On The Moon! - pg. 75
• The Cat In The Closet - pg. 78
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 87
• Sound And Passion - pg. 92 - circa 1971
• I Just Write Poetry So I Can Go To Bed With Girls - pg. 99
• The House Of Horrors - pg. 112 - 1971
• Untitled Essay On d.a. levy - pg. 115 - circa 1971
• Henry Miller Lives In Pacific Palisades And I Live On Skid Row, Still Writing About Sex - pg. 117 - circa 1972
• A Forward To These Poems - pg. 126
• The Outsider - pg. 129
• Vern's Wife - pg. 140 - circa 1972
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 144
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 149 - 1973
• He Beats His Women - pg. 154
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 157 - 1974
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 162 - 1975
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Notes of a Dirty Old Driver of a Blue 1967 Volkswagen TRV 491) - pg. 166 - 1975
• The Big Dope Reading - pg. 171
• East Hollywood: The New Paris - pg. 188 - circa 1981
• The Gambler - pg. 211
• Ladies Man Of East Hollywood - pg. 221
• The Bully - pg. 245
• The Invader - pg. 255
• Playing And Being The Poet - pg. 271

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