It sounds like a funny idea to have Anal Cunt play sentimental acoustic songs, that’s what A.C. is: A funny idea that stopped being funny a long time ago.
Posthumously published diaries document the period between August 1991 and February 1993, Bukowski’s voice leading a screaming charge from beyond the grave.
Borrowing Rimbaud’s anvil of hope, he crowns The Uglies with the cap of Revolution, then turns on his heels, cool-style, and marches back up the Glory Hill.
As he had done previously with Blues for Bird, his biography of Charlie Parker, Gray presents Modigliani’s life in the narrative style of an epic poem.