Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems.
New York: Ecco Press, 2005. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like many other Buk collections, this one comes in four parts. To see just how good it is, turn to part 2, indicatively introduced by these lines: "There's a lioness / down the hallway // put on your lion's mask / and wait." The section's theme is women: Buk's women, lioness-like, indeed. Approach with caution or, better, as he says, wait. Beauty or, like Buk, beast, each is as sexy, feisty, crude, and smart (sometimes) as he is. These seemingly artless (you try to write anything good in Bukowski's dribble-down-the-page free style) rants, matched here in force and humor by the ones not about women, are the poetic analogs of the man-woman stuff in the pages of tough-guy novelists. Item #27972
ISBN: 0060577037
Price: $125.00