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Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit Paperback – May 31, 2002

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40 Cigarettes
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5 Dollars
59 Cents A Pound
8 Rooms
Africa, Paris, Greece
Another Argument
The Apple
An Argument Over Marshal Foch
Art
Blue Moon, Oh Bleweeww Mooooon How I Adore You!
Claws Of Paradise
Close Encounters Of Another Kind
Cooperation
Dow Average Down
The Drill
The Drunk Tank Judge
The Egg
Face Of A Political Candidate On A Street Billboard
Fair Stand The Fields Of France
Fire Station
The Happy Life Of The Tired
Horse And Fist
Hot Month
Hug The Dark
I Liked Him
I Love You
I'm In Love
An Ideal
Interviews
Junk
A Killer Gets Ready
The Killer Smiles
The Knifer
The Ladies Of Summer
Leaning On Wood
A Little Atomic Bomb
The Loner
Maybe Tomorrow
Mermaid
Metamorphosis
The Night I Was Going To Die
Nothing Is As Effective As Defeat
The Paper On The Floor
Promenade
The Proud Thin Dying
A Radio With Guts
The Red Porsche
The Sandwich
Solid State Marty
Some Picnic
The Souls Of Dead Animals
The Strangest Thing
Success
Through The Streets Of Anywhere
To Weep
Tough Company
Under
The Violin Player
We'll Take Them
Yankee Doodle
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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 two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

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  • Item Weight : 1 pounds
  • Paperback : 130 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 9780876854372
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0876854372
  • Product Dimensions : 5.91 x 0.33 x 9.13 inches
  • Publisher : Ecco (May 31, 2002)
  • Language: : English
  • ASIN : 0876854374
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