AMAZONよりFIFTY-TWO CLIPS OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI RANTING AND MUSING COMPRISE BARBET SHROEDER痴 CHARLES BUKOWSKI TAPES. IT WAS, UNTIL NOW, A RARITY THAT CIRCULATED AMONGST DIE-HARD BUKOWSKI FANS, SINCE THE RELEASE OF SHROEDER痴 BUKOWSKI-SCRIPTED FEATURE, BARFLY. THIS COLLECTION OF MONOLOGUES, RANGING IN TOPIC FROM BUKOWSKI痴 BEEF WITH GOD, TO BIOGRAPHICAL TALES OF HIS LIFE AS AN ABUSED CHILD, TO HIS VIEWS ON WRITING AS A DISCIPLINARY CRAFT, COVER THE GAMUT OF BUKOWSKI-TYPICAL TOPICS, WHICH CAN ALSO BE GLIMPSED IN OTHER BUKOWSKI DOCUMENTARIES, SUCH AS BORN INTO THIS. BUT THE CHARLES BUKOWSKI TAPES ARE SET APART BY THEIR SHEER VOLUME OF CANDID AUTHOR FOOTAGE, IN WHICH BUKOWSKI HAS DRUNKENLY ABANDONED ALL CAMERA-SHYNESS TO REVEAL, AND REVEL IN, HIS DAMAGE. IN ONE CHILLING SEGMENT, HANK AND LINDA LEE SIT ON THE COUCH AND SERIOUSLY DISCUSS DIVORCE, LEAVING THE VIEWER FEELING AS IF THEY致E EAVESDROPPED ON A THERAPY SESSION. IN ANOTHER, HANK TAKES US TO HIS CHILDHOOD HOME, TO SHOW US THE BATHROOM, NI