The Continual Condition (pre-publication)

[Purple Stickpin]

Interesting; I didn't think this was due out until October.

 

[marina del rey]

Yeah, it's a little early.


(No complaints here.)

 

[bospress.net]

That's odd; City Lights doesn't even list it in their "Forthcoming Books" section.

Hi,
I think that he is talking about "The Continual Condition", from Ecco, not Christ W/ BBQ sauce, er, I mean Absence of the Hero by City Lights...

Still, it is a week early.

Bill

 

[1fsh2fsh]

damn man. My account says that I won't recieve it till Oct 2-oct 6. I ordered it months ago. I wonder if this is a case of first ordered first shipped? if thats the case it make me wonder how many pre-orders they recieved.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I think that he is talking about "The Continual Condition", from Ecco, not Christ W/ BBQ sauce, er, I mean Absence of the Hero by City Lights...

Yeah; I edited that, but not before you copied it. But even so, it's fairly early. I should be able to find it at the local bookstore anyway.

 

[PBBUK]

I am talking about Continual Condition. Confirmed shipping on hardcover.

 

[Bukfan]

I just ordered it after having received an email from Amazon saying I could save $8.84 by pre-ordering. They said it would ship on the 29th, and estimated delivery would be October 9 - 22.

 

[cirerita]

1st review:

Copyright Booklist Publications Sep 15, 2009

Poetry The Continual Condition. By Charles Bukowski. Ed. by John Martin. Oct. 2009. I44p. Ecco, $25.99 (9780061771200). 811.

Poets don't come more sui generis than lumpen existentialist par excellence Bukowski (1920-94). So it's nice that Martin, whose Black Sparrow Press Buk's sales legendarily maintained, keeps finding more of the mangy master to publish. Nicer, the contents of even this eleventh collection of leavings is of a piece with the others. If anything, there is less sentimentality in it than in some previous posthumous volumes. These are poems about writing and drinking, the racetrack, women, and sniveling fans - a quite good one about one of those, who worries that bad stuff will no longer happen to the comfortable elderly Buk; Buk knows better. Damned if the longest ones aren't high among the best; for instance, the high-school epic episode "mountain of horror" and "heavy dogs in cement shoes," about suffering boring discussions of great "outsider writers" - Celine, Kerouac, and on down from there: Ginsberg, Mailer (Mailer!!? That's how Buk feels, too), Olson, Ferlinghetti, Poe, Saroyan . . . It's the same old roughneck intellectual rant - nonpareil entertainment. - Ray Olson

 

[Bukfan]

He seems to like it. I hope it's as good as he says.

- Lumpen existensialist par exellence? I never heard that one before. :D

 

[Purple Stickpin]

An Existentialist? That's a new one for sure. At least he didn't use beat.