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The Last Night Of The Earth Poem Summary

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Book Review on “The Last Night of the Earth Poems” By Charles Bukowski “The Last Night of the Earth Poems” was Bukowski’s last poetry book before he passed away in March, 1994. Bukowski is a man made famous for his obscenity and immoral self indulgence- though to adhere to such things misses the zest of his poems. “The Last Night of the Earth Poems” removes the caustic armour and lets the tender heart beat out prose without any fear. It is often the bitterness, the boozing and whoring that is expressed, the reader can feel something beautiful and passionate that is lurking below the gutters of Bukowski’s fragile yet sturdy soul. Bukowski’s perception of the world is rather recherché yet it is both somber and poetic in such a way only a few can handle. He characterises and compares complicated feelings to something simple, something that most people can relate to somehow. He also manage to turn a situation most people would find disturbing completely upside down, which is illustrated in his poem “the man with beautiful eyes”: “ When we were kids/ There was a strange house/ All the shades were/ Always/ Drawn/ And we never heard voices/ In there/ And the yard was full of/ Bamboo/ And we liked to play in/ The bamboo/ Pretend we were/ Tarzan/ (although there was no/ Jane)./ And there was a / Fish pond/ A large one/ Full of the/ Fattest goldfish/ You ever saw/ And they were/ Tame./ They came to the/ Surface of the water/ And took pieces of/ Bread/ From our
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