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Bone Palace Ballet
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Author: Charles Bukowski
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Bone Palace Ballet Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781574230307
ISBN: 1574230301
Label: Black Sparrow Pr
Manufacturer: Black Sparrow Pr
Book Pages: 300
Publication Date: 1997-04
Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr
Studio: Black Sparrow Pr
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781574230307
ISBN: 1574230301
Label: Black Sparrow Pr
Manufacturer: Black Sparrow Pr
Book Pages: 300
Publication Date: 1997-04
Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr
Studio: Black Sparrow Pr
Editorial Review of Bone Palace Ballet
Customer Reviews of Bone Palace Ballet
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Bukowski Scores Again!
Review: Bone Palace Ballet is another amazing book of prose from the drunkest of the drunken poets, the most beaten of the beats, Charles Bukowski.
To say he was an influential writer, is like saying Dr. M.L. King was a mediocre speaker. Bukowski inspired more people to pick up a pen or sit down at a typewriter than possibly any other writer or poet in the short history of our country. Bone Palace Ballet is actually one of his milder books compared to a lot of his work. So people who have been scared off by his hard living and harder writing, can appreciate this collection.
Although not his best work by far, it's worth a read (as is anything he ever did). It's a quick read despite it's hefty length, so you'd be better off borrowing this one from a friend. That's the only problem with poetry books, is the high cost combined with the short time it takes to read them. But I would still rather see you buy this than borrow the crap that's on the New York Times best seller list. Now go out and find his other work.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Not his best stuff, but not bad.
Review: Charles Bukowski, Bone Palace Ballet (Black Sparrow, 1997)
The main problem with the fact that Charles Bukowski has now published more work after his death than he did during the first sixty years of his life is that, well, not all of it is all that wonderful (and, really, the quality of the doorstops that were coming out in the seven or eight years before his death wasn't exactly stellar, either). This is not to say that some really, really good Buk books haven't come out posthumously-- The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship quickly became one of my favorite Buk reads-- but Bone Palace Ballet is not one of them. It's a lot like those last few books published before his death in that there are a number of places where you can see why it is that Buk was able to become the sole American poet able to make a comfortable living solely off writing the stuff, the kind of talent that makes Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame or War All the Time a book that, when you're done with it, will stay with you for the rest of your life. But those times are few and far between (though to be fair, there's a lot more "few and far between" in a 363-page book, pretty much by definition, than there's going to be in one of the seventy-page wonders most poets turn out about twenty percent as frequently as Buk). Worth reading for established fans, but newbies will want to go father back in the canon for their first approach. ***
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Chinaski, you never had it!!!
Review: To read Sir Charles is to read about life without the pompous filter you get with most other pap. This installment is no different from anything else from Lord Chinaski.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Here's to Bukowski
Review: With Bukowski there is no middle ground; you either love him or you hate him. Yes he can be filthy, jaded and downright mean. But there is the ring of truth here as well. Published posthumously this is a feast for Bukowski fans. There are a lot of dark poems here like Walking with the Dead and Return to Sender. But there is also some lighthearted stuff. In The Fool Dines Out he shows us his human side; he is the husband whose rude behavior towards a waiter brings on spousal criticism (in private of course)
He has been accused of being a misogynist; in Bone Palace Ballet
there is no evidence of that. Bukowski was a bit of a misanthrope, or did he just see the human condition a whole lot clearer than the rest of us? A must have for any Bukowski fan!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: bukowski's wife's collection
Review: not a bad collection
you have to figure that there a wealth of stuff still out theer yet to be released. this book is proof of that
some good stuff here
its easy to decide that this is the stuff he chose not to release but i like to think he just hadnt gotten around to it yet
Review Summary: Bukowski Scores Again!
Review: Bone Palace Ballet is another amazing book of prose from the drunkest of the drunken poets, the most beaten of the beats, Charles Bukowski.
To say he was an influential writer, is like saying Dr. M.L. King was a mediocre speaker. Bukowski inspired more people to pick up a pen or sit down at a typewriter than possibly any other writer or poet in the short history of our country. Bone Palace Ballet is actually one of his milder books compared to a lot of his work. So people who have been scared off by his hard living and harder writing, can appreciate this collection.
Although not his best work by far, it's worth a read (as is anything he ever did). It's a quick read despite it's hefty length, so you'd be better off borrowing this one from a friend. That's the only problem with poetry books, is the high cost combined with the short time it takes to read them. But I would still rather see you buy this than borrow the crap that's on the New York Times best seller list. Now go out and find his other work.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Not his best stuff, but not bad.
Review: Charles Bukowski, Bone Palace Ballet (Black Sparrow, 1997)
The main problem with the fact that Charles Bukowski has now published more work after his death than he did during the first sixty years of his life is that, well, not all of it is all that wonderful (and, really, the quality of the doorstops that were coming out in the seven or eight years before his death wasn't exactly stellar, either). This is not to say that some really, really good Buk books haven't come out posthumously-- The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship quickly became one of my favorite Buk reads-- but Bone Palace Ballet is not one of them. It's a lot like those last few books published before his death in that there are a number of places where you can see why it is that Buk was able to become the sole American poet able to make a comfortable living solely off writing the stuff, the kind of talent that makes Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame or War All the Time a book that, when you're done with it, will stay with you for the rest of your life. But those times are few and far between (though to be fair, there's a lot more "few and far between" in a 363-page book, pretty much by definition, than there's going to be in one of the seventy-page wonders most poets turn out about twenty percent as frequently as Buk). Worth reading for established fans, but newbies will want to go father back in the canon for their first approach. ***
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Chinaski, you never had it!!!
Review: To read Sir Charles is to read about life without the pompous filter you get with most other pap. This installment is no different from anything else from Lord Chinaski.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Here's to Bukowski
Review: With Bukowski there is no middle ground; you either love him or you hate him. Yes he can be filthy, jaded and downright mean. But there is the ring of truth here as well. Published posthumously this is a feast for Bukowski fans. There are a lot of dark poems here like Walking with the Dead and Return to Sender. But there is also some lighthearted stuff. In The Fool Dines Out he shows us his human side; he is the husband whose rude behavior towards a waiter brings on spousal criticism (in private of course)
He has been accused of being a misogynist; in Bone Palace Ballet
there is no evidence of that. Bukowski was a bit of a misanthrope, or did he just see the human condition a whole lot clearer than the rest of us? A must have for any Bukowski fan!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: bukowski's wife's collection
Review: not a bad collection
you have to figure that there a wealth of stuff still out theer yet to be released. this book is proof of that
some good stuff here
its easy to decide that this is the stuff he chose not to release but i like to think he just hadnt gotten around to it yet