New Poems Book One by Charles Bukowski

New Poems Book One Reviews

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  Edita

  the most terrible thing about life
  is finding it gone.
• 
  Peycho Kanev

  EVIDENCE
  
  whores and great poets should
  avoid one another:
  their professions are dangerously
  similar:
  from the Roman Empire to our
  Atomic Age
  there have been about an equal
  number of whores and
  poets
  with the authorities continually
  trying to outlaw
  the former
  and ignore the latter
  —which tells you
  how dangerous
  poetry
  really
  is.
• 
  Chloe

  magnificent . bukowski makes me want to be a writer . a real one
• 
  Nadia Kay

  3.5
  naughty shel silverstein??
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  Bradford

  I love Bukowski's poetry and this volume is no exception but I do have one complaint! A lot, and I mean almost all, if not actually all, of them are reproduced elsewhere. Most appear in the, much better in my opinion, collection 'Sifting through the madness"...
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  Juliet the Book Slayer

  When Bukowski is good, he's GOOD. There were a lot of rambly poems in this collection but also a couple of truly great ones. Looking forward to reading more of his work.
• 
  E

  bukowski deserves both a punch and a hug
• 
  Georgia

  At first I wasn’t convinced, but the more I read the more I realised that these poems aren’t so much poetic as vivid vignettes of life - every one a short story. I got sucked into each glimpse of world in a way I didn’t expect.
  
  Unblinking Grief is the best poem in there, in my opinion and A Sickness? reminded me of Carol Ann Duffy’s Beautiful from Feminine Gospels.
  
  Of course, the language can be troubling at times, and that was quite jarring.
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  Distorted Memories (Sunny)

  i had first abandoned it after reading half of it due to no time in life. But this last week I picked it up and finished it. This was a new kind of poetic form I got to read unlike what I am used to reading. (Modern poetry). Still even though I vaguely remember the starting of the book as it had been quite a while back, I could say, it was nice heart warming and easy to read.
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  Rohan Mahajan

  Giving Thanks is now my favorite poem!
  
• 
  Andy

  Okay. I had read this book before and didn't write a review on it. Bad me, I know. And actually it is a bad me because although the poetry is excellent and reflexive of his later works, I continued to have the haunting feeling I had read some of them somewhere before. Although there are many excellent poems, here is a list of some of the ones that were outstanding: What can I do?, About Competition, The Joke is on the Sun, A Sickness?, Riots, Venice Beach. and Giving Thanks. As I said, it is an excellent intro to the New Poems 4 book series.
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  Jessica

  I grudgingly admit I'm a far of many of Bukowski's poems and of many of the Beat writers work in general.
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  Tina

  Not a all good poetry is about flower blossoms and undying love.
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  niuz

  Aunque tiene algunas joyas, hay mejores compilaciones de Bukowski.