Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
10 best books like Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (Charles Bukowski): Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle, Pomes All Sizes, Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, A Far Rockaway of the Heart, Walking the Black Cat, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, The Splinter Factory, Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet, Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski
| Author | Leonard Cohen |
| ISBN | 0679755411 |
With the appearance of his first record album in 1967, Leonard Cohen - already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist - was introduced to audiences in the United States, where he quickly took his place among the preeminent singer/songwriters of the time. Over the years, and through the...
| Author | Gregory Corso |
| ISBN | 0872860884 |
A good collection from one of the more undervalued Beat poets. Corso has strong merits, but his work comes across as darker and more pessimistic than others, and does not speak to me in the way that Ferlinghetti does or (to a lesser extent) Ginsberg. Much as "Howl" was in many ways Ginsberg's defining poem,...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0872862690 |
The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac’s death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems,...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0872862372 |
"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes....
A Far Rockaway of the Heart
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0811213986 |
A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. This edition now includes eighteen new poems from Ferlinghetti's...
Philosophy is for the young. Poetry is for the aged.
I said that.
4 1/2
Well, for anyone who didn't catch the Dylan references (including the three words above) ... Not so far-fetched now, okay? And who was being complimented most? Maybe it was Charles, ...
Charles...
| Author | Howard Sounes |
| ISBN | 0802136974 |
A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly)...
| Author | Jeffrey McDaniel |
| ISBN | 0916397793 |
I've never been much of a poetry reader, but I picked up this and The Endarkment (which I have yet to read) and have been consuming his poems slowly. His words pop, his lines are edgy but poignant, with metaphors that are fresh yet apt, and so many of his poems have last lines in them that have me murmuring with...
Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet
| Author | Gerald Locklin |
| ISBN | 0934953430 |
Charles Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, two almost household names in the poetry small press. Who came first? Why does it matter? Each was, or is, unique in his approach to the written word. Bukowski liked to drink, to play the horses, to write, but that was not the totality of the poet or the man. Readers seems...
| Author | Neeli Cherkovski |
| ISBN | 0394575261 |
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| Author | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 0060933763 |
Assembled by Allen Ginsberg, Selected Poems 1947-1995 is the definitive collection of the best works of one of the most influential and revolutionary poets of the twentieth century.Allen Ginsberg, famous for helping catalyze the Beat Generation, wrote poetry for more than fifty years. His innovative...
What should I do?
Should I pretend that I'm not desperately in love with this book? With Raymond Carver's writing?
Should I reveal to you that other poetry readers would probably give this collection a 3 or 4 star rating, shrug their shoulders, and toss it carelessly back on the shelf?...
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
| Author | Alan Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1560252278 |
The definitive collection of anti-establishment American poetry, from Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac to Sapphire and Tupac Shakur
"Welcome to the Wild West of American Poetry, the Hole-In-The-Wall of Blakean vision, a two-fisted saloon of New World dreams where you'll meet the greatest Outlaw...
| Author | John Fante |
| ISBN | 0876855281 |
My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twenty-one years old, living in a world bounded on the west by Bunker Hill, on the east by Los Angeles Street, on the south by Pershing Square, and on the north...
| Author | Jim Carroll |
| ISBN | 0140586954 |
Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir The Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when it was first published in 1978 and then a national bestseller when a film version of the book was released in 1995. Carroll initially made his reputation as...
