Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Me too! It is all over the internet and it is too common.i hate that picture.
why does everyone have such a hard-on for that picture?
Me too! It is all over the internet and it is too common.i hate that picture.
why does everyone have such a hard-on for that picture?
Please understand that this is not a knock on Abel's new book -- this is just something to keep you from chronically playing with your balls until Abel's book comes out.
What do you call the form of binding they´ve used on the "Essential Bukowski" hardcover version?
It is sewn in signatures, it's just very tight.casewrap on the hardcover
I also miss one poem or the other. The Singular Self, for example. But what can you do - tastes are different.And what about "The Death of An Idiot" & "WWII"? Both of these are definitely essential.
essential to who?
No. The store, Joseph Fox Books, is an excellent independent place for brand new books here in Center City. I don't usually buy brand new but when I do I try to make it over there. The lovely young lady behind the counter reported that it has been flying off the shelves so I explained to her why that might be, besides the fact that Buk is one of the, if not THE, best poets ever. Unedited, straight from the manuscripts and some of his best material. Helping make up for the Martinized period.I hope you didn't receive a 2nd hand one, PhillyDave?
Bukfan,
I Don't have the book but it sounds like a perfect bound hardcover. Not as nice as sewn. As a rule, most trade paperbacks are perfect bound and most hardcovers sewn? Have they stopped sewing trade hc books?
It is sewn in signatures, it's just very tight.
You might be able to loosen it up:
For some reason, the UK version has 92 poems and the US version that I put together, 95. For the UK edition, they discarded 3 poems and they didn't even tell me about it. The poems that were removed are "love poem to Marina", "cornered" and "do you want to enter the arena?" (aka "So you wanna be a writer?"). Un-fucking-believable.The only significant aspect of Bukowski missing here is the poet as father;
What a goddamn screw!they discarded 3 poems and they didn't even tell me about it.
For some reason, the UK version has 92 poems and the US version that I put together, 95. For the UK edition, they discarded 3 poems and they didn't even tell me about it. The poems that were removed are "love poem to Marina", "cornered" and "do you want to enter the arena?" (aka "So you wanna be a writer?"). Un-fucking-believable.
The papers are right. Europe is going south.For the UK edition, they discarded 3 poems