What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Bukowski has many collections of work, scratching the surface is an intimidating task, not unlike confronting the prolific oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. I've read a few, from the early to very late and posthumous volumes. He's excellent when he connects and sticks landings, but as with Prince records there is often required a bit of wading to locate such pieces. This is one of the most consistent and solid books of the poet's I've encountered, encompassing the full gamut and range of his different styles and approaches. Highly worth investigating, if you're looking for a clean, polished showcase of strong writing this is the finest I've yet had the fortune of exploring.

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Charles Bukowski wrote from a very honest and bold perspective. I truly appreciate his unique style and his sharp observations of human nature including his own.

I liked some parts, loved others, and even the poems I found dull still provoked me and made me see something I hadn't before (well, most of them, there's still a lot about horses and going to the track, and i cannot for the life of me give a damn about it). It takes a lot of guts to present oneself in a light so unsavory, and to be so honest about the tragedy, but also the joy of the life you lead. It's a very human, and more humble, Bukowski we meet, I think. Or perhaps the collection is simply put together that way.Here's a man who's accepted who he is, and has found a way to evade insanity. He writes it all down instead.This book also contains a few poems directed at his fans and it's pretty hilarious and illuminating to read what he has to say to the people who adored(/adores) his writing and saw him as a hero. And these are not, perhaps, poems he would have published himself, so I guess that's another thing in favor of this book.I can recommend it, not exactly as a starting point, but if you're a fan, you won't want to miss it.

Bukowski always gets 5 stars.Except for his last novel, Pulp, but the guy was dying, and knew it, when he was writing that book, so he gets a pass.

There is nothing original anyone can say about Bukowski anymore. Let me put it this way, then: this collection of poems is even more fantastic than you already expect them to be. I don't think there was a single one of them that did not keep me thoroughly riveted from the first syllable to the last. What a phenomenal voice.

Bukowski is my poet I collect his work

Merci

I have been dying to get this book!

O livro é lindo, com cores muito bonitas e uma textura na capa que é muito agradável de tocar. A versão do livro é sem orelhas, o que não é fora do esperado por ser uma versão importada e a maioria acaba vindo sem elas, por mais que exija mais cuidado com o livro, vale a pena a compra.

It's B. you either love him or really just don't like him. I think there is often really no inbetween with writers like him.

If you only ever read one book of poetry, let this be the one. If you read two, let the second be the Incomparable Genius by Fraser Donald.