Charles Bukowski

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.

Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait of Los Angeles

Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. These poems explore a more emotional side to Charles Bukowski.

"Nicht dass ich besonders gut war, aber die anderen waren einfach so gottverdammt schlecht." (Bukowski) "Bukowski schreibt eigentlich immer nur über sich und die Szene in Hollywood. Aber was er macht, wie die Szene von Hollywood ist und wie Bukowski das beschreibt, ist einmalig. Wüst, ordinär, unflätig, lässig, ausgeflippt. Buk schildert Schweinereien wie andere Leute den Sonnenaufgang. Er ist ein Sex-Besessener. Aber auch ein Dichter. Und er ist in." (hit)

Mit diesem Band begann der sensationelle Erfolg Bukowskis in Deutschland. 1973 konnten die großen Verlage mit dieser Art Lyrik nichts anfangen: Lieber ein Buch in einem kleinen Verlag als gar kein Buch, schrieb uns Bukowskis Freund und Übersetzer. Mit geliehenem Geld und auf geschnorrtem Papier wurde die erste Auflage gedruckt. Mit über 50.000 verkauften Exemplaren das erfolgreichste Buch im Maroverlag

This book brings together experts in international relations and comparative politics in order to examine the sociopolitical and economic issues of individual socialist countries and to investigate specific issues cross-nationally. In addition to summarizing recent events that have affected the politics of the socialist community, the contributors speculate about possible future developments. Arguing that socialist states are beset by problems that their institutional structures are unable to handle, the contributors agree that virtually all of the states examined require some form of immediate reform if they are to prevail as legitimate and valuable systems of government. Following essays on the overall complexities of change in socialist states and detailed analyses of six Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union, the editors conclude with a valuable discussion of the dominant patterns that have appeared in the experiences of the socialist state system.

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again. Bukowski . . . "a professional disturber of the peace . . . laureate of Los Angeles netherworld [writes with] crazy romantic insistence that losers are less phony than winners, and with an angry compassion for the lost."  Jack Kroll, Newsweek"Bukowski's poems are extraordinarily vivid and often bitterly funny observations of people living on the very edge of oblivion. His poetry, in all it's glorious simplicity, was accessible the way poetry seldom is  a testament to his genius."  Nick Burton, PIF MagazineCharles Bukowski (1920-1994) 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 went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including books published by City Lights Publishers such as Notes of a Dirty Old Man, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, The Bell Tolls for No One,and Absence of the Hero.