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Essential Bukowski: Poetry
Hardcover
Letters & EssaysFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $28.99
ISBN13: 9780062565280
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Oct 25 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of American poetry 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 in this landmark poetry collection 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 modern poetry touched by grace.
This is Essential Bukowski.
This career-spanning collection captures the voice of a literary outlaw:
- Transgressive Literature: Witness the raw, funny, and acutely observant voice that left an enduring mark on modern culture, speaking to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience.
- Raw and Honest Writing: Experience Bukowski's unvarnished, self-deprecating, and powerful verse, which illuminates the most enduring concerns of the human condition with visceral and hilarious clarity.
- Poems About Life: Journey through a wide range of subjects--from love and sex to death and the desperate absurdity of writing and ordinary life--all captured with a tough, unrelenting style touched by grace.
- Literary Poetry: Curated by leading scholar Abel Debritto, this essential volume presents the most powerful and poignant work from a master of the form, tracking his evolution from early lyricism to his final, philosophical stance.
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