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Charles Bukowski - Reads His Poetry (Limited 100th Birthday Vomit Edition) [New

Artist: Charles Bukowski

Title: Reads His Poetry (Limited 100th Birthday Vomit Edition)

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Comedy

UPC: 848064010883

Release Date: 2020

Record Label: Real Gone Music

Album Tracks

1. Introduction
2. Creation of the Morning Line
3. Death
4. The Sex Fiends
5. "Love," He Said
6. Piss and Shit
7. The Death of An Idiot
8. Style
9. The Worlds Greatest Loser
10. Last Day of the Suicide Kid
11. The Shoe Lace
12. Hot
13. Earthquake
14. The Rat
15. The Best Love Poem

Limited vomit colored vinyl LP pressing. 'This is Charles Bukowski. Well, let me just sit here and drink beer.' Thus begins the September 14, 1972 poetry reading from which this 1980 release on John Fahey's Takoma label is drawn. This is quintessential Bukowski, from the rude 'n' crude drawing that adorns the front cover to the belches that punctuate the poems. As for the work itself, it's not really what you'd commonly conceive of as poetry, but rather observations and vignettes drawn from life's darker side, focusing on perversions, poverty, drunkenness, gambling, and bodily functions. But Bukowski's bemused air and self-deprecating humor blunt the shock value of the words and emphasize the universality of the themes. 'I want you to hate me, ' he says to the audience, but it's hopeless - he is one of us. Now, Real Gone is celebrating the 100th birthday (8/16/20 is the date) of this larger-than-life figure with a special 'vomit vinyl' pressing (of all the bodily functions, this is the one that Bukowski, um, revisited again and again in his writings). Limited to 1000 copies, and sure to go as fast as the author would drain your liquor cabinet