Charles Bukowski

 Here's a selection of recordings by the great Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

70 Minutes in Hell- A home recording of Bukowski reading (1969) 

At Terror Street And Agony Way- CB recorded at home- (1969)

King of Poets -  A home recording of Bukowski reading (1970)

Poems and Insults - Live recording (1973)

 Solid Citizen- Live in Hamburg (1978)

Hostage - Rowdy poetry reading in San Pedro, CA (1980)

The Life And Hazardous Times Of Charles Bukowski: Neither Bought For Gold Nor To The Devil Sold. Essentially a biography of CB. (1999)

Do You Use A Notebook? Radio interview. (1986)

 Bukowski Lives! Poems over a musical back track. (2003)  

Run With The Hunted- a compilation.

American Poets...

Here is a selection of recordings by American poets of the 20th century (Walt Whitman being the exception; the collection kicks off with a wax-cylinder recording of Whitman reading in about 1890!) The poems are not arranged by date of composition or recording, but in order of the poet's birth.  And it's not supposed to be any all inclusive best of sort of deal, and it doesn't reflect my 'taste'. It's just a few files I lifted. 

Walt Whitman (1819 –1892)

America.

William Carlos Williams (1883 –1963)

The Red Wheelbarrow

To Elsie 

e.e. cummings (1894 –1962)

Next of Course God America

Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

Ogden Nash (1902 –1971)

Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man

Langston Hughes (1902 –1967)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Theodore Roethke (1908 –1963)

Elegy for Jane

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b.1919)

See It Was Like This When..

Underwear 

Charles Bukowski (1920- 1994) 

The Secret of My Endurance

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

American Haikus [Excerpt]

 Allen Ginsberg (1926 –1997)

America

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

The Truth the Dead Know

All My Pretty Ones

Maya Angelou (b.1928)

Phenomenal Woman

Gary Snyder (b.1930)

The Song of the Taste

How Poetry Comes to Me

Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer

Melancholia

The venerable Highlander regularly features poetry on his excellent blog ,Cactus Mouth Informer .

I know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I'm not going to have regular poetry posts. It's just that I chanced on this poem by Charles Bukowski, and it pressed some button. Read more of his verse here...
Bukowski's novels, by the way, are well worth a read.


Melancholia

the history of melancholia
includes all of us.