You Get So Alone at Times

Charles Bukowski

Mar 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

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

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

Ratings and reviews

This book is even better on paper. It is amazing and great for describing me and my internalized "teenage angst" and making me feel like I'm not alone with half these thoughts. He is amazing at making someone think about things in a different way. He is a God. If I could give this more than 5 stars, I do would. Bought this originally on Amazon Kindle, but buying it again in here.

very ecentric! lol the man sounded like he had a great life.im not really a reader,I thought I'd pick up a book and learn something and I wound up picking one of the best books ever written😊 I'm looking forward to reading more of his shirt stories and poems.thanks

Always popular, this collection contains some of Bukowski's most powerful scrawls, with well-formed ideas and elegant, minimal language. These are free-verse poems because no other form would represent feeling like these; they are the naked feelings and ruminations of a well-worn human being, which would suffer from the grammatical imperatives of prose as much as the pretty artifice of rhyming poetry. These are perfect singular expressions, like exposures on a camera film. You will read and re-read these nuggets and wonder just why they make your gut quiver and your mind reel.

About the author

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.