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    Essential Bukowski: Poetry

    Written by Charles Bukowski

    Narrated by Eric Meyers

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    About this audiobook

    ‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet

    ‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen

    The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark

    Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.

    Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there’s a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.

    Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heart-breaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateNov 3, 2016
    ISBN9780008223663
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    Essential Bukowski: Poetry
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    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.

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    • 5/5
      Just as I have done on two occasions, I’m going right back to listen again.
    • 5/5
      Awesome! Must listen. Go for it. Life changing stuff.
    • 5/5
      A soothingly crisp collection of astonishing raw and uncooked emotions
    • 5/5
      This is awesome I think, is that 10 word now?
    • 5/5
      Raw and rough as a tramp’s chin. Bukowski tells it like it was for him and his poems are all the better for it. I had never read any poetry even close to this in terms of darkness, crudeness or at times, creepiness! But there is light and dark throughout and his observations of humour in poverty, in pain, in violence are hilarious.
      I listened to this as I walked my dog after crappy days and I have to say it never failed to cheer me up!
      Enjoy.
    • 5/5
      Bukowski was a great poet. Loved this collection. Preferable to his fiction for me.
    • 5/5
      A review about a poetry book is, in my opinion, a complex thing. i feel you either hate or love it. in between is not allowed. And that’s that.
    • 5/5
      loved the poems selected and the narrator was just phenomenal
    • 5/5
      Dead nut on. Have read all Bukowski's works and they could not be more exact.