WHAT MATTERS MOST IS HOW WELL YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIRE
Charles Bukowski Black Sparrow Press ($16) by Mark Terrill It's astonishing just how many people, when they hear the name Bukowski, are ready to dismiss him, in less than a breath, as some sort of sexist, macho, skid-row bard, caught up in his teufelskreis of booze, broads, and back-rent, whose poetics consisted of nothing more than a […]