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Essential Bukowski

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Essential Bukowski

By: Charles Bukowski
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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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.

©2016 Charles Bukowski (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
Death, Grief & Loss Love Poetry Themes & Styles United States World Literature Funny Witty

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bukowski is an observer of life and writes it as he saw and experienced it first hand in all it's glory from the gutter upwards . he holds a mirror up to us to wake us from I side out !.

all the poems

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