{"product_id":"the-people-look-like-flowers-at-last-new-poems","title":"The People Look Like Flowers at Last: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"if you read this after I am dead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt means I made it\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\"The Creation Coffin\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn it, he speaks on topics ranging from horse racing to military elephants, lost love to the fear of death. He writes extensively about writing, and about talking to people about writers such as Camus, Hemingway, and Stein. He writes about war and fatherhood and cats and women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFree from the pressure to present a consistent persona, these poems present less of an aggressively disruptive character, and more a world-weary and empathetic person.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis final volume from the master of dirty realism delivers: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDirty Realism: \u003c\/b\u003e Find poetry in the grit of the everyday--from horse racing and hangovers to the unflinching realities of love, loss, and survival.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLife and Death: \u003c\/b\u003e Confront the fear of death, the weight of fatherhood, and the strange beauty of a world that keeps turning, with or without you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Writer's Life: \u003c\/b\u003e Step into the mind of a literary outlaw as he spars with the ghosts of Hemingway and Camus and lays bare the raw, bloody act of creation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUnpublished Works: \u003c\/b\u003e Experience the unvarnished last words of an American icon in a volume of never-before-seen poems, stripping away the persona to reveal the weary heart beneath.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48003261726909,"sku":"BS-TC0-577087","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780060577087-HD.jpg?v=1786884459","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/the-people-look-like-flowers-at-last-new-poems","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}