The People Look Like Flowers at Last: New Poems

The People Look Like Flowers at Last: New Poems"if you read this after I am dead It means I made it" "The Creation Coffin" The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski. In it, he speaks on topics ranging from horse racing to military elephants, lost love to the fear of death. He writes extensively about writing, and about talking to people about writers such as Camus, Hemingway, and Stein.

"if you read this after I am dead

It means I made it"

-"The Creation Coffin"

The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski.

In it, he speaks on topics ranging from horse racing to military elephants, lost love to the fear of death. He writes extensively about writing, and about talking to people about writers such as Camus, Hemingway, and Stein. He writes about war and fatherhood and cats and women.

Free from the pressure to present a consistent persona, these poems present less of an aggressively disruptive character, and more a world-weary and empathetic person.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 01/08/2008
ISBN: 9780060577087
Pages: 299
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d