Charles Bukowski poem and story database

Storm for the Living and the Dead

Published in 2017 by Ecco

Caught Again At Some Impossible Pass - pg. 3 - manuscript - 1959
In This - pg. 4 - circa 1960
Why Are All Your Poems Personal? - pg. 6 - circa 1961
Prayer For Broken-Handed Lovers - pg. 8 - circa 1960
Fast Pace - pg. 9 - circa 1962
I Think Of Hemingway - pg. 10 - circa 1963
I Was Shit - pg. 13 - 1962
Corrections Of Self, Mostly After Whitman - pg. 15 - circa 1963
The Bumblebee - pg. 17 - 1963
Warble In - pg. 19 - circa 1963
A Trainride In Hell - pg. 20 - circa 1965
Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer - pg. 25 - circa 1963
The Rope Of Glass - pg. 27 - 1964
Tough Luck - pg. 29 - 1966
Sometimes When I Feel Blue I Listen To Mahler - pg. 30 - circa 1966
Men's Crapper - pg. 34 - circa 1966
Like A Flyswatter - pg. 36 - 1968
Take Me Out To The Ball Game - pg. 38 - 1968
I Thought I Was Going To Get Some - pg. 42 - circa 1969
Charity Ward - pg. 44 - circa 1969
Like That - pg. 45 - 1969
Phone Call From My 5-Year-Old Daughter In Garden Grove - pg. 46 - 1970
The Solar Mass: Soul: Genesis And Geotropism: - pg. 47 - 1970
Hooked On Horse - pg. 48 - circa 1970
Fuck - pg. 51 - circa 1970
2 Immortal Poems - pg. 53 - circa 1970
T.H.I.A.L.H. - pg. 55 - manuscript - circa 1968-1970
The Lesbian - pg. 57 - circa 1970
A Poem To Myself - pg. 64 - circa 1970
Fact - pg. 70 - 1970
Blues Song - pg. 71 - circa 1970
Fat Upon The Land - pg. 72 - circa 1971
Love Song - pg. 77 - 1971
Poem For Dante - pg. 79 - circa 1970
The Conditions - pg. 81 - circa 1970
29 Chilled Grapes - pg. 82 - 1971
Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame - pg. 85 - 1971
A Cop-Out To A Possible Immortality - pg. 88 - manuscript - 1972
Well, Now That Ezra Has Died - pg. 89 - 1972
Warts - pg. 91 - 1973
My New Parents (For Mr. And Mrs. P.C.) - pg. 93 - 1973
Something About The Action - pg. 95 - circa 1973
55 Beds In The Same Direction - pg. 103
B - pg. 108 - 1975
Finger - pg. 109 - manuscript - 1975
The Thing - pg. 110 - 1975
Bob Dylan - pg. 112 - 1975
Texsun - pg. 114 - 1975
Warm Water Bubbles - pg. 116 - 1975
A Corny Poem - pg. 118 - 1976
The Ladies Of The Afternoon - pg. 121 - circa 1976
Tongue-Cut - pg. 124 - manuscript - 1977
Venice, Calif., Nov. 1977 - pg. 126 - 1977
Mirror - pg. 127 - 1978
Head Jobs - pg. 129 - 1978
Chili And Beans - pg. 134 - 1979
Go To Your Grave Cleanly - pg. 136 - circa 1979
Kuv Stuff Mox Out - pg. 138 - 1978
A Long Hot Day At The Track - pg. 143 - 1978
The Letters Of John Steinbeck - pg. 147 - manuscript - 1978
And The Trivial Lives Of Royalty Never Excited Me Either - pg. 149 - 1981
Letter To A Friend With A Domestic Problem - pg. 150 - manuscript - 1982
Agnostic - pg. 155 - manuscript - 1982
Clones - pg. 156 - manuscript - 1982
Gnawed By Dull Crisis - pg. 160 - circa 1982
I Been Working On The Railroad - pg. 162 - manuscript - 1982
The Way It Goes - pg. 170 - 1983
Alone In A Time Of Armies - pg. 172 - 1984
Going Modern - pg. 174 - 1984
It Doesn't Always Work - pg. 178 - circa 1985
I Have This Room - pg. 180 - 1985
A Man For The Centuries - pg. 182 - 1985
Dear Old Dad - pg. 184 - manuscript - 1986
Peace And Love - pg. 186 - circa 1986
The World Of Valets - pg. 194 - circa 1985
I Live To Write And Now I'm Dying - pg. 200 - circa 1987
Rip It - pg. 207 - circa 1988
Henry Miller And Burroughs - pg. 209 - circa 1988
Family Tree - pg. 212 - circa 1988
Being Here - pg. 214 - circa 1989
The Only Life - pg. 216 - 1989
Stomping At The Savoy - pg. 219 - manuscript - 1990
The Glory Days - pg. 221 - manuscript - 1990
Congrats, Chinaski - pg. 224 - manuscript - 1990
He Went For The Windmills, Yes - pg. 226 - circa 1990
All My Friends - pg. 228 - 1991
A Reader Writes - pg. 231 - 1991
Ow Said The Cow To The Fence That Linked - pg. 235 - manuscript - circa 1992
My America, 1936 - pg. 238 - 1992
1/2/93 8:43 PM - pg. 240 - 1993
Musings - pg. 241 - 1993
Storm For The Living And The Dead - pg. 244 - 1993
Cover Charge - pg. 248 - 1993
Good Stuff - pg. 251 - 1993
Now - pg. 254 - manuscript - 1993