Charles Bukowski

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known, material that appeared in small magazines but was never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published. In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated the very finest of this material-poems from obscure, hard-to-find magazines, as well as from libraries and private collections all over the country-most of which will be new to Bukowski's readers and some of which has never been seen before. In doing so, Debritto has captured the essence of Bukowski's inimitable poetic style-tough and hilarious but ringing with humanity. Storm for the Living and the Dead is a gift for any devotee of the Dirty Old Man of American letters.

"Acclaimed writer Charles Bukowski turns his signature eye on the world of felines. A series of essays and poems all about cats, Bukowski's classic funny and frank tone becomes, at times, even endearing as he explores and honors the majestic creatures and our relationship with them." --BustleFelines touched a vulnerable spot in the unfathomable soul of Charles Bukowski, the Dirty Old Man of American letters. For the writer, there was something elemental about these inscrutable creatures, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our beings. Bukowski considered cats to be forces of nature, elusive emissaries of beauty and love. Funny and moving, On Cats offers Bukowski's musings on these beloved animals and their toughness and resiliency. Poignant and free of treacle, On Cats is an illuminating portrait of this one-of-a-kind artist and his unique view of the world, witnessed through his relationship with the animals he considered among his most profound teachers." The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever." -Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), der ofte betegnes som kultforfatter, var en af efterkrigstidens mest markante amerikanske forfattere. Han beskæftigede sig i både lyrik og prosa hovedsagligt med den hvide underklasse, og hans skrivestil er kendetegnet ved sin forening af rå beskrivelser, en poetisk tone og befriende sort humor. Han er især kendt for sine fem semibiografiske romaner om Henry Chinaski: Ekstrabudene (1971), Alt forefaldende arbejde (1975), Kvinder (1978), Med det hele … (1982) og Hollywood (1989). ”Ord var ikke kedelige, ord var noget, der kunne få hjernen til at nynne. Hvis man læste dem og lod sig indfange af magien, kunne man leve uden smerte, med håb, lige meget hvad der skete en.” Med det hele … (1982) er en hudløs ærlig skildring af det fattige hvide underklassemiljø under den økonomiske depression i 1930’ernes Los Angeles. Den unge Henry Chinaski kæmper med tilværelsen i et barndomshjem præget af en passiv mor og en voldelig far, der lader sine frustrationer gå ud over sønnen i form af systematiske prygl. Tæsk er der også at finde i skolen, hvor børnene lader deres hårde opvækst gå ud over hinanden gennem slagsmål og mobning. Det er først, da Henry stifter bekendtskab med alkoholen, men især litteraturen, at han finder et fristed i en verden, der fremstår absurd og uretfærdig. Vi følger Henry fra hans første erindringer om sin barndom til Amerikas indtræden i 2. Verdenskrig.” En ting er, at bogen er så velskrevet og morsom, at man suser igennem den. En anden er, at bogen giver nogle pokkers gode svar på gåden Bukowski.” – Kim Skotte, Det Fri Aktuelt”Bukowski driver de bløde følelser frem i læseren i stedet for at smøre dem ud over bogsiderne.” – Thomas Bredsdorff, Politiken

A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. Bukowski is brilliant on love--often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. "My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough," he writes, "as the same cat crouches." Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.

â?? The best poet in Americaâ?? Jean Genet â?? He brought everybody down to earth, even the angelsâ?? Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems 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 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 poetry touched by grace. This is Essential Bukowski.

Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives

The perfect gift book for the literary cat lover - musings on the magical mystique of our feline friends, from American icon Charles Bukowski

A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life to. Piercing, unsentimental and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with the author's trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos and intimacy. In the previously unpublished letters to editors, friends and fellow writers collected here, Bukowski is brutally frank about the drudgery of work and uncompromising when it comes to the absurdities of life and of art.

Sharp and moving reflections and ruminations on the artistry and craft of writing from one of our most iconoclastic, riveting, and celebrated masters. Charles Bukowski's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence--letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers--the writer shares his insights on the art of creation. On Writing reveals an artist brutally frank about the drudgery of work and canny and uncompromising about the absurdities of life--and of art. It illuminates the hard-edged, complex humanity of a true American legend and counterculture icon--the "laureate of American lowlife" (Time)--who stoically recorded society's downtrodden and depraved. It exposes an artist grounded in the visceral, whose work reverberates with his central ideal: "Don't try." Piercing, poignant, and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with Bukowski's trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos, and intimacy.

Just Love is a Dog from Hell (på svenska: "Kärlek är en hund från helvetet") gavs första gången ut i USA på 1970-talet. Då var Charles Bukowski redan känd genom sina romaner "Postverket" och "Factotum". Denna diktsamling är en av hans mest populära. Den tillkom under samma tid som hans tredje roman "Kvinnor". Båda böckerna handlar om Charles Bukowskis turbulenta kärleksliv på ­1970-talet. Charles Bukowski: "Jag skriver om det som äger rum, och allt upprepas om och om igen, nästan till döds. I mitt skrivande, så jobbar sig mina gestalter ur detta, åtminstone tillfälligt vilket är mitt tema. Det hjälper inte att ge upp: det finns alltid en gnutta ljus i det mörkaste av helveten." Den 9 mars 1994 gick Charles Bukowski bort i cancer. Hans ­författarskap lever, i högsta grad. Sverige är ett av många länder där han ges ut. ­Allt ­­som tidigare gavs ut av Norstedts förlag har nu kommit ut i reviderade ­översättningar på Lindelöws bokörlag, i pocket. Lindelöws fortsätter också att nyöversätta honom. ­Och då är det förstås Einar Heckscher som gör det, med sin tonsäkra lyhördhet för slang och ­vardagsprosa i Los Angeles. Kärlek är en hund från helvetet är ett exempel. De två andra nyyöversatta böckerna av Charles Bukowski är novellsamlingen Märkta kort (2008) och poesisamlingen Dagarna rusar fram som vilda hästar över bergen (2011).

A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the dirty old man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a passionate madman. In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. Bukowski is brilliant on love often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, he writes, as the same cat crouches. Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting."

From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. An informative introduction by editor David Stephen Calonne provides historical context for these seemingly scandalous and chaotic tales, revealing the hidden hand of the master at the top of his form. "The uncollected gutbucket ramblings of the grand dirty old man of Los Angeles letters have been gathered in this characteristically filthy, funny compilation ... Bukowkski's gift was a sense for the raunchy absurdity of life, his writing a grumble that might turn into a belly laugh or a racking cough but that always throbbed with vital energy."--Kirkus Reviews Born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, Charles Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he would eventually publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose. He died of leukemia in San Pedro, California on March 9, 1994. David Stephen Calonne is the author of several books and has edited three previous collections of the uncollected work of Charles Bukowski for City Lights: Absence of the Hero, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, and More Notes of a Dirty Old Man.