The Story
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.
No apologies. No punches pulled.
- Confessional Poetry: Unflinching poems that stare into the mirror at a life of cheap rooms, hard drinking, and harder women.
- Gritty Realism: From the slaughterhouse to the racetrack bar, Bukowski finds the ugly, brutal truth of the everyday.
- Tender and Vicious: A world of bitter arguments and drunken nights, where moments of unexpected love and romance still manage to break through.
- A Singular Voice: The iconic, plain-spoken style that made Charles Bukowski one of the most imitated poets in American literature.
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 05/31/2002
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.76w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780876854372
About the Author
Bukowski, Charles: -
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.
Description
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.
No apologies. No punches pulled.
- Confessional Poetry: Unflinching poems that stare into the mirror at a life of cheap rooms, hard drinking, and harder women.
- Gritty Realism: From the slaughterhouse to the racetrack bar, Bukowski finds the ugly, brutal truth of the everyday.
- Tender and Vicious: A world of bitter arguments and drunken nights, where moments of unexpected love and romance still manage to break through.
- A Singular Voice: The iconic, plain-spoken style that made Charles Bukowski one of the most imitated poets in American literature.
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 05/31/2002
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.76w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780876854372
About the Author
Bukowski, Charles: -
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.
