The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps

A posthumous masterwork of raw grit, racetrack bets, and cheap rooms.

This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation.

The volume gathers late-career work tracing decades across Los Angeles, moving from dingy Hollywood apartments along DeLongpre Avenue to a sunlit home in San Pedro.

Bukowski revisits graveyard-shift factory lines, the...