Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #292398 in Books
• Published on: 1983-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
More than a hundred poems about writing, mortality, the nature of success, and the relationship between men and women.

Customer Reviews

If you are scared of the Naughty-bits
For those of you who appreciate the less carnal side of Charles Bukowski's writing "Dangling in the Tournefortia" is a great choice. It appears that what is most obviously dangling in this work is Mr. Bukowski's place in line, no longer at the far end of the unemployment line but not one soul away from entering the rest home either. On one hand you have poems like "My Big Fling" that describe how the Chinaski gets into a fight with his woman, storms out to a hotel, climbs into bed with drinks and watches TV...only to find out the next day he and his woman watched the same show from their respective beds. On the other, you have another poem that tells Old Bukowski's story of juggling three girlfriends all half his age (about 50). Much like the rest of us, Bukowski changes, if gradually and begrudgingly, over time and in spite of the critics of his later work this is still a fine piece of his writing. Check out "Screams from the Balcony" if you think that Bukowski spent his whole life indignant to the world. Then again I suppose he wouldn't care one way or another now about our little reviews. "Dangling" is a good book for the most part.