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 atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted--stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingI get what many will consider anobnoxious thought: it's still nice to beBukowski.