Scream When You Burn: A Pound of Sacred Flesh from the Lap of Coffee Culture

by Rob Cohen (Editor), Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg

Remember when you spilled that scalding coffee in your lap at the drive-thru? L.A.'s scrappy young poetry mag Caffeine has packaged that wonderful feeling in a steaming anthology that features over fifty contributors and five unpublished poems by Charles Bukowski.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even though I have work in the anthology, I would still read it. Los Angeles in the early 1990's never looked more caffeinated.

[Zack · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good collection of recent LA spoken word, mostly poetry and a very little prose. Mostly pretty good, and sometimes great, only occasionally corrupted by the fakey slam poetry voice.

[Scott Holstad · Rating 5 out of 5]

During its run, Caffeine Magazine was probably the most influential and hippest literary magazines on the west coast, if not all of America, publishing some of the greatest writers alongside little known but damn good SoCal writers. Fantastic distribution, appeared everywhere, in high demand, quality everywhere you look. This anthology contains some of the best and most interesting from the Caffeine period (including myself), and it's one of the best and most enjoyable literary anthologies I've read.