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Original Title: Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
ISBN: 157423028X (ISBN13: 9781574230284)
Edition Language: English
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Title:Bone Palace Ballet
Author:Charles Bukowski
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 368 pages
Published:August 22nd 2002 by Ecco (first published May 1st 1997)
Categories:Poetry. Fiction

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I like Bukowski. I like his blunt honesty. I like how he manages to give a damn and not give a damn at the same time. I like how easy it is, how natural it feels. It's very human poetry. It isn't posed or faked, it isn't trying to drown itself in pity, misery or self-loathing. There's a feeling of tender detachment in it. Like he's looking back on it.

And he might well have been. I didn't know this was a selection of previously unpublished works until I was almost done reading it. "New Poems" might have given it away, but all poems are new at some point, so really, how would I know? Had I known I might not have bought it.
The thing about selections like this is that, well... some things were just never meant to be published.

The majority of the poems in this book are pretty good - but not great. Bukowski is very apt at making me see the world from a different perspective - one that is otherwise lost to me, and I love that. I love the style he has and the easy simplicity he employs.

However, we do hit some less fortunate selections. To be quite frank I have no idea what the fuck some of it's doing there. There's a poem about his cat. Several about exchanging his typewriter with a computer. Some are about being old They're repetitive, some descriptions or variations thereof are used more than once. To be honest he's a little off through the whole thing, but some are worse than others. There are still moments when he shines and I'm amazed. But not as much as I'd like.
Maybe I'm just expecting the wrong thing:

"I am writing a novel now and one way
or the other I have lost 4 chapters in this
computer.
now like everything else
this isn't such an important thing
unless it happens to you

(...)

like you'll read this poem and
think, too bad, well, he lost 4
chapters
but couldn't he have written a
poem about
reaming some whore in a
motel room
instead?"

but couldn't you have done that, Charles? And saved me having to sit through this drivel that leaves a bad taste in my mouth and a feeling like you've given up?

No, in the end I can't blame him. He didn't publish it. The whole selection suffers under not having been meant to be published together.

The title is exceptional though, that alone deserves 5 stars, I wish the rest had too.


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Bone Palace Ballet by Charles Bukowski (Harper Collins 1997) (811) is a collection of the author's poems. My favorite by far is "Classical"; every schoolboy with a good-looking teacher can identify with this poem. My rating: 6.5/10, finished 5/9/14. 4/8/19 - changed the rating to 7.5 based solely on the strength of "Classical."

These poems, like all of Bukowski's poems that I have read, are each so remarkably relevant and timeless. How he did it, I'll never know. I wrote something a week ago, and it is already stale and dated and stupid. His work is depressing, disturbing, hilarious, and inspirational. Read this collection and read deeply about:alcohol, cats, $3 whores, wives, soldiers, bullies, visitors, pools, computers, bars, nights, owls, phones, aging, 1985, horse racing tracks, classical music, face lifts,

Witty, real, and addictive to read, poem after poem. This collection is great for reading while alone and late at night. You'll feel his company.

Great book. Had fun reading. Super last collection by the master: Bukowski. He takes us on a journey thru the modern American human landscape. He is clever and sharp, intense and promiscuous, dismissive and rough. In an easy style, he bares loneliness, inanity and obtuseness that hides within the fold of the fabric of modern life. His style is to be imitated for profit. We see his journey from anonymity to fame, from stress to relative peace. He is observant and penetrating. I read well over a

This is the first book of Charles' that I have picked up to read, as I always thought his style of poetry was not something I'd enjoy. I thought wrong. His raw and blunt poetry was some of the best I'd read, and I particularly enjoyed how he didn't make things flowery or drown you in abstract metaphors, it all felt authentic, like I was reading his exact thoughts. Highly recommend.

This is one of those posthumous collections of unpublished Bukowski poems, of which there are many. You get the impression he was knocking them out quickly, an old man writing for himself, to himself, repeating himself, lazy, funny..but the spirit is still strong and occasionally a poem or a line will astound.

Bukowski seems to have took the piece of advice about writing about what you know to heart really strongly. That is to say, he seems to only know how to write about alcohol, misery, gambling, and his burning hatred for women. This would be fine (or at least less actively detestable) if he could at least do this well - or at least in a way that's interesting to read. But he doesn't. At all.