Run With The Hunted [Paperback]

Charles. Bukowski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1962

Bukowski's third chapbook. Midwest Poetry Chapbooks are edited by R.R. Cuscaden and published by Midwest: A Magazine of Poetry and Opinion, Chicago, Illinois.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: MIDWEST POETRY CHAPBOOKS.; 1ST edition (1962)
• ASIN: B0027KAFO2
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

More 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 Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived 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 (1994).

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgetable reading experience, June 28, 2002

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Reviewer X (Las Vegas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (Paperback)

I am not going to go over the contents of the book, or much about Charles Bukowski, because if you are considering this book you must know something about the man and his work. I will just give you my impression of this collection of work.
No collection can ever really be complete, there are always new things to add, new commentary, newly discovered works, transcripts of records and unpublished letters, but this book does an excellent job in its attempt.
To me Charles Bukowski will always be one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, because of the sheer brutality and honesty his work emanates. It is funny, sad, sadistic, cruel, scathing, enlightening and thought provoking. Everything I like to read. This is poetry for people who are disgusted by verse of flowers, trees and Greek mythology. This is RAW human emotion and experience smeared out onto paper. It is not perfect, and it is not trying to be. It doesn't always work, but there in lies the subtle beauty of Bukowski's efforts. the guts to try. The attempts at honesty, clearly blocked by his unwillingness to divulge everything, and his cynicism of man.
This collection is shocking in its beauty, and inspiring by its simplicity. Enjoy.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A voice from the other side, January 22, 2001

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T. Bekken (Austmarka Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (Paperback)

To a kid growing up in a small town in Norway, Bukowski was definitely a voice from another reality. In many ways, his prose and poetry showed that the bums and the lowlifes - in other words; the hunted - actually had a voice, and a strong one at that... The greatness of Bukowski lies in his ability to tell extremely complex stories in a straightforward, deceptively simple language and style. The poetry is also very sharp and precise. Whatever the man did to himself with regard to drink and drugs; it never took away a smattering of his ability to observe the human predicament in all its glory - or terror, depending on whom you might ask... This 'reader' is a good place to start for anybody who would like to get acquainted with Bukowski's work. It contains poems and stories that stay on the reader's mind for a long time. The writings are also a reminder that no matter how hard a person might believe in the American dream, the dream doesn't work for everybody.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Bukowski addicts!, October 16, 2003

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This review is from: Charles Bukowski Uncensored CD (Audio CD)

This recording is a MUST for all those, like myself, who regard Bukowski as the one true voice of the fringe-dwelling dispossesed. People focus on his hard-drinking, his 'bum-like' persona, but what makes him remarkable is how his fiction and poetry reflects REALITY: the 'failure' and humiliation of being an artist (and essentially voiceless) in America. I listened to this recording with friends -- and we all agreed that it captures the man.

Also recommended: ... Run With the Hunted, Post Office, Ham on Rye, Factotum, Women by Buk, The Losers' Club by Richard Perez