The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: The Writing Life - Softcover

Bukowski, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786894432 ISBN 13: 9781786894434

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2018

Synopsis

A previously unpublished collection of work on the art of writing - by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers

About this title

About the Author

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

From the Inside Flap

In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb, deflating pretentions and tearing down idols armed with only a typewriter and a bottle of beer. From numerous tales of the author's adventures at poetry readings, parties, film sets, and bars, to an unprecedented gathering of Bukowski's singular literary criticism, the author discusses his writing practices and his influences. The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way is a perfect guide to the man behind the myth and the disciplined artist behind the boozing brawler.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786894432
• ISBN 13: 9781786894434
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304