What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
HarperCollins · Paperback · June 1, 2002
“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire is the second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski that takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s.
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- Who it’s for
- For when you want Bukowski’s blunt voice, with a little heat and a little ruin.
- Genres
- American Poetry, American Literary Collections, Love Poetry
- Published
- HarperCollins, June 1, 2002
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“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire is the second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski that takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s.
Fire and Wit
For when you want Bukowski’s blunt voice, with a little heat and a little ruin.
Come here for
- playful Bukowski edge
- dark, plainspoken collection energy
Expect
- American poetry with an erotic anthology fringe
- women, America, and the usual bruised wit
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 64% |
|---|---|
| American Literary Collections | 39% |
| Love Poetry | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Erotica Anthologies
- Literary Fiction
- Women's Fiction
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- Satire
- Dark Humor
- Essay Collections
- Women Authors Collections
- Authors
- Charles Bukowski
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- June 1, 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- The Classics