{"product_id":"burning-in-water-drowning-in-flame","title":"Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.\"--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.\"--Leonard Cohen, songwriter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurning in Water, Drowning in Flame\u003c\/i\u003e is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in the first three sections of this book were published in three volumes\u003ci\u003e: It Catches My Heart in its Hands, Crucifix in a Deathhand \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAt Terror Street and Agony Way\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Bukowski wrote in his introduction \"Looking at these poems written between 1955 and 1973 I like (for one reason or another) the last poems best. I am pleased with this. I have, of course, no idea what shape my future poems will take, or even if I will write any, because I have no idea how long I will go on living, but since I began writing poetry quite late in life, at the age of 35, I like to think they'll give me a few extra years now, at this end. Meanwhile, the poems that follow will have to do.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47984157589693,"sku":"BS-TC0-851913","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780876851913-HD.jpg?v=1786579511","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/burning-in-water-drowning-in-flame","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}