Name: War All the Time
ISBN: 9780061882067

Charles Bukowski

War All the Time is a selection of poetry from the early 1980s. Charles Bukowski shows that he is still as pure as ever but he has evolved into a slightly happier man that has found some fame and love. These poems show how he grapples with his past and future colliding.

War All the Time

Melanie Richards

Reads like the diary of a pre-teen, if that pre-teen was into booze, women, and horses.

Blazgorb Throxis

Not much to say. It's a solid collection of poetry.

noha

3.5

“I can only think that the death of good people and bad are equally sad”

I pretty much knew what I’m going to get when I decided to go for a Bukowski’s book; what a drunk, dirty old man but still there’s something hidden in his poems that makes me not mind picking another one of his works..
 
“I sit above the ice rink where the children skate
in the afternoon,
mostly young girls dressed in blues, reds, whites, greens,
purples, yellows, orange
they are all very good, swift, they spin and glide,
there are no collisions. even the tiniest child
very good, all tiny, larger and largest—
whirl through the open spaces as if they were one.
I like it, very much, but then I think
as they get older they will stop skating, they will
stop singing, painting, dancing,
their interests will shift to
survival.”

War All the Time

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