Essential Bukowski, Charles Bukowski
Essential Bukowski, Charles Bukowski
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Essential Bukowski
Poetry

Author: Charles Bukowski

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 2 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/17/2024

Synopsis

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.

About Charles Bukowski

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Always on August 21, 2018

I haven't read anything by Charles Bukowski before this but I really enjoyed this. Again its hard to really review poetry but I have wanted to read more of it and so I'll have to figure it out I guess. My favorite poem was definitely Bluebird, and I had been reading it in recitation and I started to......more

Goodreads review by Arthur on March 14, 2017

What's funny is that I've read every novel and damn near every story ol' Buk ever published, but I must confess I've read precious little of his poetry in comparison. I picked up this latest collection hoping it would catch me up a bit, and I'd say that's what it did. Combining old classics like "th......more

Goodreads review by Hákon on March 20, 2022

I have said in the past that Charles Bukowski is among my favourite poets, but oddly enough this is the first poetry book by him that I've read. Before I had just read him a poem at a time, here and there. This was an interesting read, that much is certain. Some of my favourite Bukowski poems are he......more

Goodreads review by Carrie (brightbeautifulthings) on May 08, 2017

I’m always hoping that I’ll like poetry more than I do, but I think the truth is that I almost never get it. Other than an abundance of Shakespeare and Marlowe and a brief section on Romantics, I never had a proper poetry class, and I lack the ability to just naturally intuit what poets are talking......more

Goodreads review by Virginija on July 04, 2022

There is something about Bukowski and his poetry that just goes straight into soul and stays there forever.......more

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