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What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire | Charles Bukowski
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This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s.
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Wellreadhead
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There is very little left original to say about Charles Bukowski.

The very essence of his poetry derives from his aims at chronicling nothing more than the impulse to make poetry. It‘s gestation made visible, the often awkward attempt to have something exist and exist uniquely.

#athinsliceofanxiety #bookreview #charlesbukowski

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KendallHershey
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I‘ve always felt the line between sanity and madness was thinner than most would admit. More fragile than we can grasp. I loved this poem because it gave voice to that thought. #poetry #poetrymetters

DrJAdMerricksson Lovely! 4y
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gradcat
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Leftcoastzen I love this so much, thanks for posting! 5y
gradcat @Leftcoastzen Thank you so much for saying that—it makes me feel good! I love Bukowski‘s work, too. 😘 5y
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Wellreadhead
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MStew I wanna read this 6y
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Wellreadhead
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Rebesta Buk is awesome. I haven't read this one yet. 6y
Wellreadhead @Rebesta The last tattoo I got was actually a quote from a poem featured in this very collection. 6y
Rebesta @Wellreadhead - That's awesome. Do you mind if I ask what the quote is? 6y
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Wellreadhead Not at all. It‘s, “I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid, I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.” 6y
Rebesta That‘s a great quote! 6y
Jason7 I haven‘t read Bukowski‘s poetry. Love his fiction tho. The Post Office is good, but Ham on Rye is great! Maybe I should give this one a shot. 6y
Wellreadhead @Jason7 I haven‘t read a lot of his fiction, just his novel Women so far. 6y
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KimHM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 6y
julesG 😍😍😍 love it! 6y
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Amor4Libros 😍😍😍😍😍 6y
Maria514626 Lovely! 6y
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GoneFishing

I will remember the kisses
...
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.

monkeygirlsmama 💗💗💗 7y
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GoneFishing

The area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience —
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.

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GoneFishing

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

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GoneFishing

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

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Readaholics
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Brilliant. Honest. Bukowski.

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Readaholics
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Raw. Visceral. Ironic. Bukowski's poetry is like a truth sandwich - good for you, but sometimes hard to eat.

Shortstack This is my favorite book of his that I've read. He's a fascinating man. 8y
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