The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems

by Bukowski, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780060577025
• ISBN10: 0060577029
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-10
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

The second of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet -- 143 never-before-seen works of gritty, amusing, and inspiring verse.

Table of Contents

part 1.
German	3	(2)
the old girl	5	(4)
the birds	9	(2)
game day	11	(2)
gas	13	(2)
mystery leg	15	(7)
be cool, fool	22	(2)
an unliterary afternoon	24	(3)
poop	27	(4)
the end of an era	31	(7)
the 60's	38	(3)
the would-be horseplayer	41	(2)
the night Richard Nixon shook my hand	43	(1)
throwing away the alarm clock	44	(1)
pretenders	45	(2)
$1.25 a gallon	47	(2)
floss-job	49	(2)
a friendly place	51	(3)
the old couple	54	(2)
what?	56	(1)
born again	57	(1)
card girls	58	(3)
it's never been so good	61	(2)
goading the muse	63	(3)
the wavering line	66	(4)
the road to hell	70	(2)
crucifixion	72	(1)
barfly	73	(4)
part 2.
thoughts while eating a sandwich	77	(1)
nothing's free	78	(1)
what bothers them most	79	(5)
into the wastebasket	84	(3)
it's over and done	87	(1)
nice guy	88	(2)
feet to the fire	90	(1)
the poetry game	91	(2)
the fix is in	93	(1)
photos	94	(1)
tonight	95	(2)
a visitor complains	97	(3)
besieged	100	(1)
the novice	101	(2)
Cleopatra now	103	(3)
please	106	(1)
the barometer	107	(2)
enemy of the king, 1935	109	(2)
nights of vanilla mice	111	(2)
lark in the dark	113	(2)
lonely hearts	115	(2)
B as in bullshit	117	(1)
a riot in the streets	118	(1)
interlude	119	(2)
d.n.f.	121	(1)
reading little poems in little magazines	122	(2)
how to get away?	124	(2)
the difficulty of breathing	126	(3)
help wanted and received	129	(1)
heart in the cage	130	(2)
places to die and places to hide	132	(2)
poem for the young and tough	134	(1)
ow	135	(1)
my doom smiles at me-	136	(2)
hey, Kafka!	138	(2)
a strange visit	140	(2)
1970 blues	142	(2)
snow white	144	(1)
sour grapes	145	(1)
fencing with the shadows	146	(2)
a hell of a duet	148	(2)
the dogs	150	(3)
part 3.
cold summer	153	(2)
crime does pay	155	(2)
throwing my weight around	157	(3)
they rolled the bed out of there	160	(3)
crawl	163	(2)
nothing here	165	(1)
my last winter	166	(1)
first poem back	167	(1)
a summation	168	(1)
walking papers	169	(2)
alone in this room	171	(1)
farewell, farewell	172	(1)
about the mail lately	173	(2)
life on the half shell	175	(1)
the hardest	176	(1)
a terrible need	177	(1)
body slam	178	(1)
the gods are good	179	(1)
the sound of typewriters	180	(4)
a fight	184	(3)
Sunbeam	187	(4)
apparitions	191	(1)
speed	192	(2)
it's difficult to see your own death approaching	194	(1)
made in the shade (Happy New Year)	195	(1)
one for Wolfgang	196	(1)
night unto night	197	(2)
notes on some poetry	199	(2)
the buzz	201	(2)
a simple kindness	203	(2)
good try, all	205	(2)
proper credentials are needed to join	207	(3)
silly damned thing anyhow	210	(2)
moth to the flame	212	(1)
7 come 11	213	(2)
put out the light	215	(2)
foxholes	217	(1)
calm elation, 1993	218	(5)
part 4.
I have this new room	223	(2)
writing	225	(2)
human nature	227	(2)
notations	229	(2)
Democracy	231	(1)
Kraznick	232	(2)
Hungaria, Symphonia Poem #9 by Franz Liszt	234	(2)
Club Hell, 1942	236	(3)
unloading the goods	239	(2)
Saratoga hot walker	241	(3)
the sixties?	244	(6)
experience	250	(2)
fame at last	252	(3)
party of nine	255	(3)
he showed me his back	258	(1)
the unfolding	259	(2)
drunk before noon	261	(2)
thumbs up, thumbs down	263	(2)
they are after me	265	(3)
feeling fairly good tonight	268	(1)
there's a poet on every bar stool	269	(5)
valet	274	(3)
prescience	277	(1)
10:45 a.m.	278	(2)
the horses of Mexico	280	(2)
a big night	282	(2)
a musical difference	284	(2)
you tell me what it means	286	(2)
dear reader:	288	(2)
not much singing	290	(2)
the shadows	292	(1)
a pause before the counter attack	293	(1)
picture this	294	(1)
9 bad boys	295	(1)
one more day	296