The People Look Like Flowers at Last: New Poems

Bukowski, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006057707X ISBN 13: 9780060577070

Verlag: Ecco Pr, 2007

Book by Bukowski Charles

Reseña del editor:

A fifth and final collection of previously unpublished works of poetry by the influential twentieth-century American writer includes pieces that present sensory-based observations about real and imaginary landscapes. By the author of Ham on Rye and Post Office. 30,000 first printing.

Contraportada:

the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the
cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures;
Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job
as a waitress; and
the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he
giggled up through the
soot.
I walked miles through the city and recognized
nothing as a giant claw ate at my
stomach while the inside of my head felt
airy as if I was about to go
mad.
it’s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing,
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.

—from "fingernails; nostrils; shoelaces"