You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."-Joyce Carol Oates

"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."-Leonard Cohen, songwriter

"well, that's just the way it is..."
sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted--
...