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    The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966

    By Charles Bukowski

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    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

    “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

    The Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061877421
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    The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966
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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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    • 4/5
      Here's something you won't find in any other Charles Bukowski book: pretension. I thought his father had beaten it out of him, but it must be that he had to develop his voice. So what we have here is not just uncut diamonds but hints at directions Bukowski could have taken instead of the one he did. Sadly his verse isn't as inspiring at this stage but his talents are present and accounted for. A few of these poems are classics and I've even heard him reading one of them. But you don't get the plain spoken with this book, you don't get the characters who all talk with attitude like they came straight out of an old movie, you don't get the tales as much, and instead you get imagery, which in his hands works fine although in my evaluation it's sub-Neruda.
    • 5/5
      This is my favorite collection of Bukowski's poems. Read it all at once, read it in pieces, read it drunk, re-read sober, read it outside, inside, in the rain, in the tub, with classical music playing or don't read it at all and just stare at the cover.
    • 4/5
      My favorite collection of Bukowski's, of older poems. A lot of variety and depth.
    • 4/5
      One of the earlier collections of Bukowski's poems. A friend of mine recently let me look at his bootlegged version of 'Factotum' the Matt Dillon movie based on some of Bukowski's experiences. It was very good--maybe not quite as good as Barfly but well worth seeing. In any case it is somewhat my impetus for writing something about Buk's poetry which is always very lucid and at the same time epiphanic by nature. The number of themes may be limited but he more than makes up for it in other ways--his was a legitimate voice of the down and outs and people who work for a living--he always speaks of and about them with insight, empathy and humor. A poet and a writer well worth checking out.