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    The Last Night of the Earth Poems

    By Charles Bukowski

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    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

    “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

    In The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Charles Bukowski's gritty poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061857171
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    The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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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
      Mr. Bukowski has grown as a poet (in spite of some claims to the contrary) and this collection shows it. He seems to be writing at a frenetic pace as his life enters its final stages (published in 1992, Bukowski died in 1994). This collection has some of the very best poems that Charles Bukowski ever wrote. It also has a few poems that aren't quite up to snuff, but that's a small price to pay to see the very best of what a writer would have to offer. I'm not going to go into the highlights here because being surprised is sometimes the best part about coming across a masterwork. I will say, however, that Bukowski's trademark humor and beat-generation writing are still in full force. The Last of the Earth Poems is a highlight in a remarkably prolific career.
    • 4/5
      This is the last collection of Bukowski's poetry published during his lifetime. Written at the age of 72, the poems are highly reflective and focus heavily on the nature of old age. Bukowski has not gone soft though; there are plenty of pieces about women, drunkenness, and desperation. However, they are approached from a place of wisdom: the wisdom that comes from a life that only Bukowski could have lived.
    • 4/5
      A good Bukowski collection of poetry.