Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Author: Charles Bukowski

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0061860743

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“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.


Slouching Toward Nirvana

Slouching Toward Nirvana

Author: Charles Bukowski

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0061979988

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in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the cross. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow on the wall before me. my love what is left of it now must crawl to wherever it can crawl. the strongest know that death is final and the happiest are those gifted with the shortest journey.


sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way

sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way

Author: Charles Bukowski

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 006197997X

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One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America. Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of Bukowski’s life. With the overhang of failing health and waning fame, he reflects on his travels, his gambling and drinking, working, not working, sex and love, eating, cats, and more. Sifting Through is Bukowski at his most meditative – published posthumously, it’s completely non-performative, and gets to the heart of Bukowski’s lifelong pursuit of natural language and raw honesty. We recommend you read this as Bukowski wrote: by sifting through the madness for what hits you as the word, the line, the way.


Dangling in the Tournefortia

Dangling in the Tournefortia

Author: Charles Bukowski

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0061881848

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“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure.


Open All Night

Open All Night

Author: Charles Bukowski

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0061882119

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These 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski's that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994.


Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground

Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground

Author: A. Debritto

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-09-25

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1137343559

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This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s.


Essential Bukowski

Essential Bukowski

Author: Charles Bukowski

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0062565303

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Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture. Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski’s unvarnished and self-deprecating verse illuminates the deepest and most enduring concerns of the human condition while remaining sharply aware of the day to day. With his acute eye for the ridiculous and the troubled, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience. Gloomy yet hopeful, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace. This is Essential Bukowski.


Love is a Dog From Hell

Love is a Dog From Hell

Author: Charles Bukowski

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0061847011

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A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. "there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock."