Open All Night

Late-night dispatches, racetrack losses, and the stubborn click of an old typewriter.

These 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski's that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994.

Bukowski anchors these late verses in the coastal quiet of San Pedro, where an aging writer types through the night to the sound of classical radio.

Racetrack grandstands and crowded betting windows frame scenes of unsparing routine, from rundow...