Absence of the hero
Subtitle: uncollected stories and essays, volume 2: 1946-1992
By: by Charles Bukowski ; edited, with an introduction, by David Stephen Calonne.
Contributors: Calonne, David Stephen, 1953-
Publisher: City Lights
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780872865310
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The reason behind reason (1946); title: Love, love, love (1946-47); title: Cacoethes scribendi (1947); title: The rapist's story (1957); title: 80 airplanes don't put you in the clear (1957); title: Manifesto (1960); title: Peace, baby is hard sell (1962); title: Examining my peers (1964); title: If I could only be asleep (1964); title: The old pro (1966); title: Ginsberg/Zukofsky review (1967); title: Buk on Buk (self-review of notes of Dirty old man) (1967); title: Notes of Dirty old man: Leroi Jones (1967); title: The absence of the hero (1969); title: Christ with barbecue sauce (unpublished) (circa 1970); title: Ah, liberation, liberty, lillies on the moon! (unpublished) (1970); title: The cat in the closet (1970); title: Notes of Dirty old man "sexual conquests generally happen" (1970); title: Sound and passion (1971); title: I just write poetry so I can go to bed with girls (1971); title: The house of horrors (unpublished) (1971); title: Untitled essay on Levy (1971); title: Henry Miller lives in Pacific Palisades (1972); title: A foreword to these poems [la poets anthology] (1972); title: The outsider: a tribute to Jon Webb (1972); title: Vern's wife (1972); title: Notes of Dirty old man: "sitting with a bottle at this typewriter" (1972); title: He beats his women (1973); title: Notes of Dirty old man: "he phones from a bar" (1973); title: Notes of Dirty old man: "B takes a trip" (1973); title: Notes of Dirty old man: "to find the proper place to write" (1974); title: Notes of Dirty old man: "many of the irritable things about life" (1975); title: Notes of Dirty old man: "down around sunset..." (1975); title: The big dope reading (1977); title: East Hollywood: the new Paris (1981); title: The gambler (1983); title: Fly the friendly skies (1984); title: Ladies man of East Hollywood (1985); title: The bully (unpublished) (1986); title: The invader (unpublished) (1986); title: Playing and being the poet (1992).