Son of Bukowski

by Charles Potts

Where Bukowski ends, Sanborn begins. Wallis Sanborn's Son of Bukowski is lived Dirty Realism, fraught with drinking, drugs, sex, madness, badness, and sadness. These poems rage and howl with power and anger and love and the elements of the street and bar and ally life. Where does a misanthrope go to read of such a life? Here, in these pages, in these minimalist works of the boxing ring, the bankrupt marriage, the life in the bottle. The 21st century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941720993
• ISBN13: 9780941720991
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Slough Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A literary tour de force

Across The North Pacific by Charles Potts is a literary tour de force of sweeping, free-verse poems projecting a future torn in three directions by the languages and attached cultures of English, Japanese, and Mandarin. Dividing its pages into spheres of influence, Across The North Pacific culminates in a verbal thunderhead explosion that will leave poetry devotees yearning for more. The North Star: This is not Polaris/But a one man satellite/In permanent geosynchronous orbit/Over the North Pacific/Trying simultaneously to see and understand/All three great North Pacific cultures at the same time.