The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps

By Charles Bukowski

Book Overview

This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0075L5KIO
• ISBN13: 9781574231656
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Working class stories

In these poems (from the 1970s and 1980s), Bukowski is getting away from the references to animals of the earlier years, moving into more specific events. Everything that happens is both small and universal. Nothing's too pretty. Kind of like real life!He's not sentimental, he's sad, and he laughs at himself. One of his best collections.

Hard language and smooth insights

Charles Bukowski's poems are grounded in California observations and scenes: and The Night Torn With Mad Footsteps provides new poems from the prolific poet's pen, which range from coastal experiences to reflections on the relative silence of typing on a modern typewriter as compared to noisy manuals of the past. Anticipate some hard language and smooth insights.

The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

Black Sparrow Press puts together an amazing book. And this is some of Bukowskis finest work ever. The hardcover deluxe edition is well woth the fifteen extra bucks.

60 yard pass

I got the "new" bukowksi book today....I read from the back...bukowski....work work work...his dad really did win...this guy who claimed to hate work and just be a bum...he could work....write write write....he wrote poems and novels....type type type.....and in the end he made some cash....bukowski's type type type work work work ethic made this book possible....don't try to create.Do itor Don'tI am Bauer