Essential Bukowski: Poetry (2016)

Published as a poetry collection by Ecco, 25/10/2016

Note

UK version does not include "Love Poem To Marina," "If You Want Justice, Take The Knife," and "Do You Want To Enter The Arena." UK version's cover also has the subtitle, "something for the touts, the nuns, the grocery clerks and you"

Works in this Book

• The Best Way To Get Famous Is To Run Away - pg. 15 - circa 1961
• The Loser - pg. 14 - circa 1960
• To The Whore Who Took My Poems - pg. 13 - circa 1960
• The Twins - pg. 11 - circa 1959
• The Day I Kicked A Bankroll Out The Window - pg. 8 - circa 1959
• Destroying Beauty - pg. 7
• When Hugo Wolf Went Mad - pg. 6 - circa 1959
• The Life Of Borodin - pg. 4 - circa 1958
• Layover - pg. 3 - circa 1956
• As The Sparrow - pg. 2 - circa 1957
• Friendly Advice To A Lot Of Young Men, And A Lot Of Old Men Too - pg. 1 - circa 1957
• The Tragedy Of The Leaves - pg. 17 - circa 1960
• Old Man, Dead In A Room - pg. 19 - circa 1961
• The Priest And The Matador - pg. 21 - circa 1961
• The State Of World Affairs From A 3rd Floor Window - pg. 22 - circa 1960
• The Swan - pg. 24 - circa 1964
• Beans With Garlic - pg. 25 - circa 1963
• A Poem Is A City - pg. 26 - circa 1962
• Consummation Of Grief - pg. 28 - circa 1962
• For Jane: With All The Love I Had, Which Was Not Enough - pg. 29 - 1962
• For Jane - pg. 31 - 1962
• John Dillinger And Le Chasseur Maudit - pg. 32
• Crucifix In A Deathhand - pg. 35 - circa 1965
• Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks And You - pg. 38 - 1964
• No. 6 - pg. 44 - circa 1965
• And The Moon And The Stars And The World - pg. 45
• True Story - pg. 46 - circa 1966
• The Genius Of The Crowd - pg. 48 - 1966
• I Met A Genius - pg. 51 - circa 1967
• Swastika Star Buttoned To My Ass - pg. 52 - circa 1966
• The Blackbirds Are Rough Today - pg. 53
• If We Take - pg. 56 - circa 1972
• Another Academy - pg. 58 - circa 1970
• The Poetry Reading - pg. 60 - circa 1970
• The Last Days Of The Suicide Kid - pg. 62
• The Shower - pg. 64 - 1971
• The Mockingbird - pg. 67 - 1971
• Style - pg. 68 - circa 1972
• Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window - pg. 69 - circa 1971
• The Shoelace - pg. 71 - circa 1971
• Those Sons Of Bitches - pg. 75 - circa 1970
• Hot - pg. 76 - circa 1973
• Trouble With Spain - pg. 79
• A Radio With Guts - pg. 81
• Love Poem To Marina - pg. 83
• Some People Never Go Crazy - pg. 85 - circa 1973
• The Fisherman - pg. 86 - circa 1973
• The Trash Men - pg. 87
• Face Of A Political Candidate On A Street Billboard - pg. 89 - circa 1974
• The Proud Thin Dying - pg. 90 - circa 1975
• An Almost Made Up Poem - pg. 92
• A Love Poem For All The Women I Have Known - pg. 94 - 1974
• Art - pg. 97
• What They Want - pg. 98
• One For The Shoeshine Man - pg. 100
• The Meek Have Inherited - pg. 104 - 1975
• Who In The Hell Is Tom Jones? - pg. 105 - 1975
• And A Horse With Greenblue Eyes Walks On The Sun - pg. 107 - 1975
• An Acceptance Slip - pg. 109 - 1975
• The End Of A Short Affair - pg. 112 - 1976
• I Made A Mistake - pg. 115 - 1976
• $$$$$$ - pg. 117
• Metamorphosis - pg. 122
• We've Got To Communicate - pg. 124
• The Secret Of My Endurance - pg. 127
• Carson McCullers - pg. 129 - 1981
• Sparks - pg. 130 - 1982
• The History Of A Tough Motherfucker - pg. 134 - 1983
• Oh, Yes - pg. 137 - 1983
• Retirement - pg. 138 - 1984
• Luck - pg. 141
• If You Want Justice, Take The Knife - pg. 143 - 1985
• Cornered - pg. 146
• How Is Your Heart? - pg. 148
• The Burning Of The Dream - pg. 150 - 1986
• Hell Is A Lonely Place - pg. 160
• The Strongest Of The Strange - pg. 164
• 8 Count - pg. 168
• We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain - pg. 169
• Flophouse - pg. 181
• The Soldier, His Wife And The Bum - pg. 186
• No Leaders - pg. 188
• Dinosauria, We - pg. 189
• Nirvana - pg. 192
• The Bluebird - pg. 196
• The Secret - pg. 198 - circa 1991
• Fan Letter - pg. 199
• To Lean Back Into It - pg. 201
• Do You Want To Enter The Arena? - pg. 203 - 1992
• The Condition Book - pg. 206
• A New War - pg. 207 - circa 1993
• The Laughing Heart - pg. 209 - circa 1993
• Roll The Dice - pg. 210
• So Now? - pg. 212 - circa 1994
• The Crunch - pg. 213 - circa 1977

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