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You Get So Alone at Times

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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

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateMar 17, 2009
ISBN9780061873041
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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.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Beautiful poetry and a movement away from his novel writing style. I enjoyed the variety and clarity of his voice more in this than in “Woman”.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    More like a 3.5 than a solid 3, but since Scribd doesn't do half points I just had to compromise.

    I've read a lot of Bukowski. He's my favorite author - I have a t-shirt with his face on it. While there were poems in You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense that I really enjoyed, such as "true" and "escape," I didn't find it to be the most compelling collection of poems by Bukowski that I've read. I appreciated seeing his softer side. It was an interesting twist. But one of the reasons I was originally drawn to Bukowski was his grittiness, his vitriol. Overall, I definitely didn't hate this collection but I didn't love it either.