War All the Time (Paperback)

by Charles Bukowski (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
60 Yard Pass
About Pain
All The Casualties...
Ass But No Class
Bad Action
Beauti-ful
A Beginning
Big John Of Echo Park
Bravo
The Condition
Dagwood And Blondie
The Darlings
The Day The Epileptic Spoke
Dear Pa And Ma
Dogs
Eating My Senior Citizen's Dinner At The Sizzler
Eulogy To A Hell Of A Dame --
Fall Out
The Famous Writer
Frozen Food Section
Funny
The Gentleman And The Bastard
Ginsberg?
Girls
Girls From Nowhere
Good Time Girl
Goodbye
Green
Here I Am
Hey, Ezra, Listen To This
The History Of A Tough Motherfucker
Hog
Horsemeat
How Do They Get Your Number?
How I Got Started
The Hustle
I Fall Into It Without Trying...
Jack-knife
John Dillinger Marches On
Krutz
The Lady Poet
The Last Generation
Love (1)
A Love Poem For All The Women I Have Known
Macho Man
Making It
The Miracle Is The Shortest Time
My Friend
Naked At 92 Degrees
Nice Try
Night On A Visa Card
Not All That Bad
Not To Worry
A Note To The Boys In The Back Room:
Note Upon The Love Letters Of Beethoven:
Now (2)
Oh, Yes
An Old Buddy
The Old Gang
On And Off The Road
On Being 20
On Being Recognized
One For The Old Boy
Our Curious Position
Out Of The Blue
Overhead Mirrors
Pace Is The Essence
A Patriot Of Life
Playing It Out
Practice
Promenade
The Puzzle
Result
A Sad Poem
Sardines In Striped Dresses
Sex And / Or Love
She Said
The Sickness
The Skaters
Sky Sign
Some Of My Readers
Space Creatures
Sparks
The Star
A Strange Moment
Suggestion For An Arrangement
Sweater
A Sweaty Day In August
The Sword
Take It
Talking To My Mailbox...
Terminology
Too Late
Training For Kid Aztec
Transformation And Disfiguration
The Troops
Truce
Upon First Reading The Immortal Literature Of The World --
A Valentine Gift
The Walls
Windy Night
Writing Is A State Of Trance
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
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). --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Ecco; 4th Printing edition (May 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876856377
• ISBN-13: 978-0876856376
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #136,494 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great collection of straight masculine poesy, March 3, 2004

By	Craig Stoughton "wanted man" (san diego, ca USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bukowski often wrote that he thought most poetry was dandyfied, prissyfied, pretty, not real, fake, false and worst of all, restrictive to the "masses". To him there were a few exceptions; John Fante, Hamsun and early Hem. in prose, some of Pound, all of Sarayon, all of Jeffers in poetry. Hank wrote clearly and lucidly about many topics, not just getting drunk and sleeping with women as many of his detractors claim. He also wrote clean crisp poetry about LA and the race track, and traffic, other writers and about cats, and food, and taking baths and, well, about life!!!! Life being lived by a human being. War All the Time was written during the early to mid eighties, a time when Hank had had some success with his writing. His movie was out and enjoying some success. He was 60 years old and he had a newer car and a house in San Pedro he owned and a woman he loved (the second Linda) so his words in this collection are not quite as hard as poems from earlier on, like the poems found in the Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame collection. But, War All the Time is still lucid and clear as a drink of vodka on ice, this collection is right up there with the best of Bukowski.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars, July 28, 2002

By	William D. Tompkins (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

im a big bukowski fan . i didnt love this collection nor did i hate it . i was more indifferent and found myself sometimes reading thru the poems quickly. out of the 5 of his books ive read thus far, this one has the least amount of pages marked with poems to go back and read

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Before He Was REALLY Big..., March 16, 2006

By	Andrea Beebe "Protecting Those Who Fear Us Most" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Many fans and critics of Bukowski often bemoan the "watering down" of the quality of his poems versus the quantity after he learned how to use a word processor (myself included), but here was Chinaski at his purest, coming out of the 70's with seemingly more short stories and novels than poems, still so brash and raw that you can practically smell the boozy halitosis blending with the carbon ink.
I ended up haviong to buy a new copy after my 3rd ed. Black Sparrow copy mysteriously vanished over the winter. Although the ECCO editions are nice enough, (hardcovers included), the print seems a little different and the paper feels a bit thinner, but I suppose I might be a little biased as I loved the original printings (plus you'll never see an autograph/drawing on a HarperCollins edition!).
Some really good long poems are included which always makes for great re-reading, but works like "the condition" and "suggestion for an arrangment" will have you whipping off lines from memory, maybe just like Buk did when he wrote them.