Bone Palace Ballet

This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski.

It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance.

Bukowski charts his progression from reading books under bedsheets to brawling in back alleys and nursing split knuckles in Los Angeles bars. Rented rooms in Philadelphia frame his hungry twenties, listening to...