New Poems Book Four

May 14, 2025 1:59 AM

Author:Charles Bukowski

New Poems Book Four

Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. His slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of gritty urban America are all reflected in his Best Generation writing and poetry, for which he became a cult figure.

Although in his lifetime Bukowski published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poems were reserved for publication after his death. Following on from the success of three previous volumes, this fourth collection of these unique and previously unpublished poems, which Bukowski considered to be among his finest work, is essential for all readers and collectors of one of the most distinctive writers of recent years.

Reviews

I have long been a fan of Geling Yan's fiction for its power to disturb us out of our ordinary worlds. She is a writer of importance. In spare and unsentimental prose, she shows us the human condition in extreme times. The Flowers of War is yet another accomplished and riveting tale that touches us at the center of our being.

—— Amy Tan

Yan masterfully depicts bubbling tensions...testament to the bravery of women in the most horrifying of circumstances...(beautifully translated by Nicky Harman)

—— Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore , Independent

The novel is rewarding for its spare prose and subtle treatment of the conflicts, quarrels, racial ambiguities and acts of transcendent heroism woven into the story... There are doomed love stories, amid the tragedies, but they are drawn from a deeper well and speak to the persistence of humanity in the grimmest of circumstances

—— Isabel Hilton , Guardian

Powerful and poignant

—— Press Association

Great storytelling

—— Observer

Intensely cinematic

—— Big Issue

Deft exploration of the wondrous and sad inscrutability of the human heart.

—— New York Times

Yan is a keen observer of the cruel and the magical, and has a fine sense of the permeable line between high hilarity and Kafkan nightmare.

—— Waterbridge Review

Masterful

—— Lancashire Evening Post

Masterful novel… Spare, beautifully understated prose…

—— Pam Norfolk , UK Regional Press Syndication

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