The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 [Paperback]

Charles Bukowski (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Black Sparrow (1996)
• ISBN-10: 0876857322
• ISBN-13: 978-0876857328
• ASIN: B000KT37YM
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,295,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More 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 Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars worth reading if you're a fan, September 5, 2005

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A. S. Lyons "toecutter" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (Paperback)

If you're a Buk fan you'll want to check out his earlier 'more lyrical' poetry; basically not as raw and hard-hitting as his work in the Seventies and beyond, a bit more fancy word-work involved, but still interesting. If you're not a fan, and prefer all that pretentious abstract imagist poetry, then this is probably the only book by the man that you might like...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it, March 12, 2004

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Bethanie Frank "book dreamer" (Coffeyville, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (Paperback)

So many of my pages are dog eared from marking all the poems that "spoke" to me. I was continually sharing the poems with anyone around me. I think that's what poetry should do. He inspires me to write more and be more observant of the little things. I like the rough edge the poems have. They seem so raw and written with such passion. Check him out if you have never read Bukowski - give it a try.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good stuff, October 9, 2002

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William D. Tompkins (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (Paperback)

if you're a bukowski fan, then this a must read--some poems hit you hard--others not so hard but thats the risk with hk and most often well worth it