A review by schmidtmark56
Bone Palace Ballet by Charles Bukowski

4.0

Extremely hit and miss postmodern poetry. Section III was the best of the book, and some near the end were great too. It looks like he usually writes mostly the same types of poems (Drinking, Horse Racing, Womanizing, street life, social isolationism, old man complaining, ars poetica, or some combination of the former), but it surprisingly doesn't get old. Despite the extremely varied quality of the poems therein, this collection was a breeze to read, and he's great at getting you to keep on reading. He's magnetic, even if you're abhored by him.