One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the...

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 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a...

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...

Screams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling. von Bukowski, Charles

A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby...

A collection of short stories by the cult American underground writer, whose books have sold over 160,000 copies. They focus on the themes that regularly recur throughout his work, from bar culture and alcoholism to gambling, sex and...

»Die Trauerfeier für meinen Vater lag mir im Magen wie eine kalte Bulette.«»Der Mensch ist der Abschaum des Universums«, heißt es gleich in der ersten Geschichte, und die restlichen 35 geben Gelegenheit, diese Theorie zu überprüfen....

A book of previously uncollected short pulp fiction, encompassing the entire range of Bukowski's talent, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern fiction. von Bukowski, Charles

How-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his...

During his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose including the novels Post Office (1971) and Factotum (1975). He is one of America's most distinctive writers and a voice for both the outsider and low...

South of No North von Bukowski, Charles

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterArguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski...