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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 Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, 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 (1994).

During his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including the novels Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975), Women (1978), Ham on Rye (1982), and Hollywood (1989). Among his most recent books are the posthumous editions of What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire: New Poems (1999), Open All Night: New Poems (2000), The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems (2001), Sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way: New Poems (2003), and The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems (2004).

All of his books have now been published in translation in more than a dozen languages, and his worldwide popularity remains undiminished. In the years to come Ecco will publish additional volumes of previously uncollected poetry and prose.

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Bukowski's posthumous productivity continues, this time giving us one of his best collections, thanks for which are perhaps due to the editorial labors of John Martin, who closed down his long-running Black Sparrow Press a few years back but maintained his interest in his meat-and-potatoes author. Like many another Buk collection, this one comes in four parts. To see just how good it is, turn to part 2, indicatively introduced by these lines: "There's a lioness / down the hallway // put on your lion's mask / and wait." The section's theme is women: Buk's women, lioness-like, indeed. Approach with caution or, better, as he says, wait. Beauty or, like Buk, beast, each is as sexy, feisty, crude, and smart (sometimes) as he is. These seemingly artless (you try to write anything good in Bukowski's dribble-down-the-page free style) rants, matched here in force and humor by the ones not about women, are the poetic analogs of the man-woman stuff in the pages of tough-guy novelists from Spillane and Thompson^B to Leonard. Ray Olson
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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco; 1st edition (January 18, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060577037
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060577032
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9 inches

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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 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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Keith Nichols

Buk at his best

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Most poets are struggling to get anything published and can hardly afford to send out less than their best work; so I have to marvel at a poet who intentionally holds back his best for publication after his death. But that's apparently what Bukowski did. I'm curious how many more poems he marked for posthumous release, but I'm not aware if John Martin has said. At any rate, the current batch is topnotch Bukowski and essential to any collection of his work.

In the past, one of my pleasures on finding a new Bukowski volume was to note the author photo, which changed from book to book. Now I get the impression that the official photo will be that of of the more avuncular-looking, white-haired Buk wearing his old-man windbreaker and gazing benignly at the camera.

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Edited to death

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Love Bukowski but this collection is heavily edited by John Martin to a point where some of the poems don't even sound like they were written by the author himself. Whole verses are added, and harsher language is censored. Do not buy!

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One of his best. I can see how Bukowski may not be for everyone, but if you’re open minded you may fall in love with his work as I have. Bukowski is sort of the Tarantino of poetry.

This book is a classic of his and now I’m kicking myself for not reading it sooner. If you like something grittier and a little more casual and less structured, do yourself a favor and pick this one up.

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A Bukowski reader must!

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As good as it gets.

Not sure what else I can say! It's a Bukowski

Came one time and in better condition that expected.

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Some of Bukowski's best work. Don't pass this one up.

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Bukowski. What more could one say?

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Quick delivery during holiday season. Book exactly what we wanted it to be.

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and how they’re not very good. There are a few of those poems here

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This book is another collection of the poetry that Charles Bukowski left behind to be published after his death. Bukowski was never one to self-censor, but he’s even more honest than usual here because he knew that he’d be dead and so he wouldn’t need to deal with any fallout. The temptation, then, must have been to use his most incendiary poems, such as the ones where he writes about other writers, and how they’re not very good.

There are a few of those poems here, but there are many, many more that simply reflect back across his life, as well as the state of the world and even the relatively new (at the time) development of the personal computer. Most of these poems were written when Bukowski was either side of seventy, and so his infamous wisdom goes even deeper here because he’s at his oldest, his most cynical.

Overall, I thought it was a cracking collection of new poetry, and it’s a must-have for any serious Bukowski fan or collector. I find it hard to say whether this is a good place to start, though – there are so many fantastic collections out there that it’s hard to recommend any one above another. I read through them almost at random, trying to read all of them but without focusing on a particular order. You could either do that, or you could read them chronologically. That all comes down to personal preference, but it isn’t going to hamper your reading experience either way. So enjoy!

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