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The Continual Condition: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9780061771217
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Oct 5 2010
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.07 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.
--Joyce Carol Oates
He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.
--Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski remains a counter-culture icon more than a decade after his death. The Continual Condition is a collection of never-before-published poems by the inimitable Bukowski--raw, tough, odes to alcohol, women, work, and despair by a rebel author equally adept at poetry and prose. Charles Bukowski lives on in The Continual Condition, a godsend for admirers of his previous collections Slouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned, and Love is a Dog From Hell, as well as his novels Factotum, Ham on Rye, and Pulp.
This final collection delivers the raw, uncut Bukowski experience:
- Dirty Realism: Unflinching poems that find the profound in the profane--from racetrack bars and dead-end jobs to the strange, savage beauty of a city that never sleeps.
- The Barfly Poet Laureate: Searing, personal odes to alcohol, women, and the Sisyphean struggle of the artist, all told with Bukowski's signature blend of weary cynicism and dark humor.
- Unpublished Works: A treasure trove for longtime fans and new readers alike, featuring poems written in his final years that have never before seen the light of day.
- Counterculture Voice: The raw, unapologetic spirit that made him an icon, cutting through the noise with brutal honesty and a middle finger to convention.
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