- Poetry, Fiction, Poetry (poetic works by one author), American poetry
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 Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).
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Character-led, intimate, contemplative and spare.
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Charles Bukowski
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow, Editorial Letras Vivas, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, Spanish, und
- ISBN
- 9789687419206
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Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, and is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having over 60 books in print. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife."
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