Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life. |
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the life of borodin | 19 |
Crucifix in a Deathhand Poems 19631965 | 49 |
no lady godiva | 56 |
beans with garlic | 62 |
sway with | 71 |
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