Chapters (188)
- Cover
- CHARLES BUKOWSKI
- Dedication
- table of contents
- 1
- God’s man
- not normal
- classical
- the puking lady
- depression kid
- burlesque
- first love
- mountain
- field exercises
- what will the neighbors think?
- full circle
- 2
- a place in Philly
- the Kenyon Review and other matters
- big night on the town
- total madness
- on the bum
- society should realize…
- madman
- nazi
- 16 Jap machine gun bullets
- bar stool
- the mirror game
- liar, liar, pants on fire!
- the inspection
- somewhere in Texas
- city boy
- the strange morning outside the bar
- a $15 boy and a $1500 casket
- rosary
- the smirking dark
- two crazies
- a note on the masses
- 3
- Lord Byron
- the weak
- a tough time
- some luck, somehow
- art class
- payoff
- ding-dong
- AFDC for you and me
- I know you
- bone palace ballet
- oh
- what can you do?
- my friend, the parking lot attendant
- last will and testament
- 12 minutes to post
- in the center of the action
- the fool
- the rock
- ah
- room 106
- in other words
- the horseplayer
- the big one
- the parade
- bum on the loose
- going away
- stag
- late payment
- 2 horse collars
- counsel
- the fighter
- my worst rejection slip
- 40,000
- coffeeshop
- poetry readings
- 4
- journey to the end
- upon reading a critical review
- the beautiful lady
- black
- my style
- dead
- a re-evaluation
- snake-eyes
- our world
- how to get rid of the purists
- a curious thing
- the finger
- don’t forget
- last call
- undecent
- one of those
- candy-ass
- the word
- please
- good night, sweet prince
- Dreiser wasn’t so hot either
- cruising
- the way it is
- a final word on no final word
- each man’s hell is different
- the powers that be
- clever
- the poem
- my mail
- walking with the dead
- up through the night
- the fool dines out
- hey, hey, hey
- band-aid
- the dangling carrot
- preparation
- freeway
- 5
- the new homeless
- the mail
- killing life
- wait, it will find us
- the x-factor
- evaluation
- the young
- no return address
- yes sirree!
- snapshot(1985)
- finished?
- the voice of Chinaski
- quotable
- interview
- the lady who looks forever young
- an answer
- a model
- my companion
- the barometer
- the rivers
- dark, and darker
- the room
- the two toughest
- the darkening light
- those good people
- horse fly
- night cap
- action
- playtime
- poem for my 71st birthday
- slow night
- the racetrack salutes you!
- alone
- the joke
- Glasgow
- owl
- Dostoevsky
- my computer
- thanks to the computer
- safe
- 3 blacks
- life like a big tender glove
- the old guy in the piano bar
- nights and years
- quiet in a quiet night
- a little cafe on 6th street
- death in the modern age
- too hot
- the last song
- reunion
- disgusting
- Bach, come back
- the modern life
- mailbag
- self-invited
- old
- the young poets
- Belfast
- the dream
- returning to an old love
- cool fur
- old?
- a problem
- taken
- welcome darkness
- Bach
- great jazz
- a moment
- wondrous
- fact
- there
- About the Author
- BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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Run With The Hunted (2012)
On Writing (2015)
Cats (2015)
Love (2016)
Copyright
BONE PALACE BALLET: NEW POEMS by Charles Bukowski. Copyright © 1997 by Linda Lee Bukowski. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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