Dangling In the Tournefortia
Bukowski, Charles. Black Sparrow Press, 1998 (9th Printing). Softbound. Joyce Carol Oates called him 'the Walt Whitman of Los Angeles'. Leonard Cohen said 'he brought everybody down to earth, even the angels'. And an anonymous former owner declared on the front flyleaf of this copy of Bukowski's typically unfiltered poetry collection: 'Gritty + Beautiful writer'. Published when he was near retirement age and his popularity was ballooning, it includes a piece called 'The Secret of My Endurance', whose final line reads, 'I’m 59 years old now and the critics say / my stuff is getting better than ever.'
Tight, square spine has a faint remainder mark and a very small area of cosmetic creasing. Besides the former owner inscription, interior is clean and unmarked. Only very light shelf-wear. 281 pp. Poetry.