Charles Bukowski poem and story database

The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way

Published in 2018 by City Lights

Upon The Mathematics Of The Breath And The Way - pg. 25 - circa 1973
A Dollar For Carl Larsen - pg. 35 - manuscript - 1957
Hell Yes, The Hydrogen Bomb - pg. 41 - circa 1958
Dialogue: Dead Man On The Fence - pg. 47 - circa 1961
Autobiographical Statement (from the book, Longshot Pomes for Broke Players) - pg. 51 - 1962
Bukowski Meets A Merry Drunk - pg. 53 - 1967
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 57 - 1968
Bukowski's Gossip Column - pg. 61 - 1968
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 65 - 1970
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 69 - 1970
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 73 - 1970
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 77 - 1971
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 81 - 1972
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 88 - 1972
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 93 - 1972
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 100 - 1972
Guggenheim Application: Narrative Account Of Career - pg. 108 - 1974
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 110 - 1974
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 116 - 1974
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 125 - 1974
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 129 - 1974
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 135 - 1975
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 140 - 1975
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - pg. 147 - 1976
Politics And Love - pg. 153 - circa 1984
Dildo Man - pg. 162 - circa 1990
Editors (And Others) Write - pg. 167 - 1960
Little Magazines In America: Conclusion Of Symposium - pg. 168 - 1963
Introduction to John William Corrington, "Mr. Clean and Other Poems" - pg. 172 - 1964
The Corybant Of Wit: Review Of Irving Layton, "The Laughing Rooster" - pg. 173 - 1965
Introduction To Jory Sherman, "My Face in Wax" - pg. 181 - 1965
Lightning In A Dry Summer: Review Of John William Corrington, "The Anatomy of Love and Other Poems" - pg. 186 - 1965
Another Burial Of A Once Talent: Review Of John William Corrington's "Lines to the South and Other Poems" - pg. 190 - 1965
Introduction to Steve Richmond, "Hitler Painted Roses" - pg. 198 - 1966
Essay On Nothing For Your Mother-Nothingness - pg. 202 - 1966
Who's Big In The "Littles" - pg. 204 - 1966
The Deliberate Mashing Of The Sun - pg. 206 - 1967
Charles Bukowski On Willie: Introduction To "The Cockroach Hotel" by Willie [William Hageman] - pg. 209 - 1968
Introduction To Doug Blazek's "Skull Juices" - pg. 210 - 1970
The Impotence Of Being Ernest: Review of Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream" - pg. 219 - 1970
An Introduction To These Poems: Al Masarik, "Invitation to a Dying" - pg. 223 - circa 1972
Foreword: Steve Richmond, "Earth Rose" - pg. 226 - 1974
A Note On These Poems: Appreciation To Al Purdy's "At Marsport Drugstore" - pg. 228 - 1977
About "Aftermath" - pg. 229 - 1983
Preface: "The Bukowski/Purdy Letters 1964-1974" - pg. 232 - 1983
Introduction To "Horsemeat" - pg. 233 - 1982
Foreword: Douglas Goodwin, "Half Memory of a Distant Life" - pg. 239 - 1987
Foreword: Macdonald Carey, "Beyond That Further Hill" - pg. 240 - 1988
Further Musings - pg. 241 - 1993
Stonecloud Interview - pg. 247 - 1972
Confessions of a Badass Poet (Berkeley Barb interview) - pg. 256 - 1974
Craft interview for New York Quarterly - pg. 274 - 1985
Gin-Soaked Boy (interview from Film Comment magazine) - pg. 282 - 1987
Lizard's Eyelid interview - pg. 289 - 1991