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The flash of lightning behind the mountain : new poems
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Presents 143 new poems from one of America's greatest modern writers and most influential poets.
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- Creator
- Charles Bukowski ; edited by John Martin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- First edition
- New York, NY : Ecco, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xii, 297 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0060577010, 9780060577018
- OCLC
- ocm53977921
- German -- The old girl -- The birds -- Game day -- Gas -- Mystery leg -- Be cool, fool -- An unliterary afternoon -- Poop -- The end of an era -- The 60's -- The would-be horseplayer -- The night Richard Nixon shook my hand -- Throwing away the alarm clock -- Pretenders -- $1.25 a gallon -- Floss-job -- A friendly place -- The old couple -- What? -- Born again -- Card girls -- It's never been so good -- Goading the muse -- The wavering line -- The road to hell -- Crucifixion -- Barfly -- Thoughts while eating a sandwich -- Nothing's free -- What bothers them most -- Into the wastebasket -- It's over and done -- Nice guy -- Feet to the fire -- The poetry game -- The fix is in -- Photos -- Tonight -- A visitor complains -- Besieged -- The novice -- Cleopatra -- Please -- The barometer -- Enemy of the king, 1935
- (Cont.) Nights of vanilla mice -- Lark in the dark -- Lonely hearts -- B as in bullshit -- A riot in the streets -- Interlude -- d.n.f. -- Reading little poems in little magazines -- How to get away? -- The difficulty of breathing -- Help wanted and received -- Heart in the cage -- Places to die and places to hide -- Poem for the young and tough -- Ow -- My doom smiles at me -- Hey, Kafka! -- A strange visit -- 1970 blues -- Snow white -- Sour grapes -- Fencing with the shadows -- A hell of a duet -- The dogs -- Cold summer -- Crime does pay -- Throwing my weight around -- They rolled the bed out of there -- Crawl -- Nothing here -- My last winter -- First poem back -- A summation -- Walking papers -- Alone in this room -- Farewell, farewell -- About the mail lately -- Life on the half shell -- The hardest -- A terrible need -- Body slam -- The gods are good -- The sound of typewriters
- (Cont.) A fight -- Sunbeam -- Apparitions -- Speed -- It's difficult to see your own death approaching -- Made in the shade (Happy New Year) -- One for Wolfgang -- Night unto night -- Notes on some poetry -- The buzz -- A simple kindness -- Good try, all -- Proper credentials are needed to join -- Silly damned thing anyhow -- Moth to the flame -- 7 come 11 -- Put out the light -- Foxholes -- Calm elation, 1993 -- I have this new room -- Writing -- Human nature -- Notations -- Democracy -- Kraznick -- Hungaria, Symphonia poem #9 by Franz Liszt -- Club Hell, 1942 -- Unloading the goods -- Saratoga hot walker -- The sixties? -- Experience -- Fame at last -- Party of nine -- He showed me his back -- The unfolding -- Drunk before noon -- Thumbs up, thumbs down -- They are after me -- Feeling fairly good tonight -- There's a poet on every bar stool -- Valet -- Prescience
- (Cont.) 10:45 a.m. -- The horses of Mexico -- A big night -- A musical difference -- You tell me what it means -- Dear reader: -- Not much singing -- The shadows -- A pause before the counter attack -- Picture this -- 9 bad boys -- One more day