Charles Bukowksi. 
 
Black Sparrow: 1986. First edition. Hardcover in an acetate jacket. Octavo. Wrinkling on the jacket's spine. Fold on the front jacket's flap. A few very small smudges and stains on the boards. Back board ever so slightly bowed. Shelf wear along the bottoms of the boards. Foxing on the tops of the boards as well as on the top edge. 313 pages. Book very good, jacket good. 
 
Bukowksi said the words roared out of him. Even when the mood turns quiet, his poems have an honesty so untamed by every kind of etiquette they feel dangerous. 
 
"now Rosalie 
either so very old or 
so quiet under the 
earth, 
this is the pimple-faced 
kid 
who lied about his age 
just to watch 
you."