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Charles Bukowski - The Pleasures of the Damned
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The Pleasures of the Damned Poems, 1951–1993
Charles Bukowski Edited by John Martin
where was Jane? something about a woman Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission trashcan lives school days grass crucifix in a deathhand the screw-game millionaires when you wait for the dawn to crawl through the screen like a burglar to take your life away the talkers art advice for some young man in the year 2064 A.D ice for the eagles girl in a mini skirt reading the Bible outside my window hell is a lonely place the girls and the birds 1813–1883 no leaders, please song one for Sherwood Anderson bow wow love the day the epileptic spoke when Hugo Wolf went mad— in a neighborhood of murder the strangest sight you ever did see— the 2nd novel junk Mademoi selle from Armentières now society should realize… the souls of dead animals the tragedy of the leaves the birds the loner The Genius of the Crowd German bar the snow of Italy for
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Screams From The Balcony C. Bukowski
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I hate to sound like a copyright bitch, but it pains me a little that anyone can buy a $5 paperback, unbind it, autofeed it through an OCR scanner and then distribute it free to millions. So now Ecco makes less money, Linda makes less money, etc. I know, I'm not going to be popular for this stance, but if we cannot convince people like Ecco that there is money in publishing poetry, then for what other reason would they publish it? They publish Bukowski to make money, period. If they make no money, they will not have an interest in publishing any new Bukowski books and may not care to continue to reprint older books. This is probably not going to happen, but for a lesser known poet, this could be a huge problem. What publisher would spend the money to publish a book of poetry knowing that the 2000 people that would actually buy it will probably just download it free and that his 2000 copies will sit in a warehouse (or his garage, if he is lik