Essential Bukowski: Poetry - Softcover

Bukowski, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000822515X ISBN 13: 9780008225155

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2016

Synopsis

‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet

‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark

Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.

Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there’s a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.

Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heart-breaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.

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‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet

‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen

From the Back Cover:

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing have left a vivid mark.

Illuminated by a resonant voice and conjuring the desperation and absurdity of being human, the perceptive poetry of Charles Bukowski transcends its particular moment to speak to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Taking on a wide range of subjects--from love to death to sex to writing--Bukowski's unvarnished poetry touches on enduring concerns while remaining sharply aware of the day-to-day.

With his keen eye for the ridiculous and the troubling, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest facets of the human experience. Granular yet expansive, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace.

This is the essential Bukowski.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 000822515X
• ISBN 13: 9780008225155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Debritto Abel