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Bukowski’s chatty free verse (and fiction) about disappointment, drunkenness, racetracks, flophouses, lust, sexual failure, poverty and late-life success amassed an enormous following by the time of ...

The Los Angeles-based poet Charles Bukowski was known for his blue collar affect and his prolific publishing. The writer, born August 16, 1920 and who passed away March 9, 1994, wrote about drinking, ...

Bukowski's unmistakable persona—an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of racetracks, booze and loneliness in ragged, self-confident, free verse—made him one of the country's most popular poets long before he ...

Charles Bukowski stood on the staircase landing above us in the lobby of the Cal State L.A. student union. Students crowded the floor. Bukowski growled and grumbled poems tersely, the “notes of a ...

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), born Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Andernach, Germany, was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer known for his raw, gritty depiction of American urban life ...

Chinaski made his debut in 1965’s Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Bukowski’s first book of prose Although Charles Bukowski’s first two published works were short stories, by ...

Among my favorite writers, Harvey Pekar and Charles Bukowski share an uncommon distinction. Despite having lowly jobs as a Cleveland veterans hospital file clerk and sorting mail in the post office, ...

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His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.” By Michael S. Rosenwald ...