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 German...

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...

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. At the forefront of American counter-culture, his Beat Generation writing is widely...

"Kobiety" von Charles Bukowski, im Englischen bekannt als "Women", ist ein halb-autobiografischer Roman, der das Leben des alternden Schriftstellers Henry Chinaski beschreibt. Chinaski, ein Alter Ego Bukowskis, navigiert durch eine Reihe...

Henry Chinaski (alias Bukowski) gehört nicht zu den Privilegierten Amerikas. Sein Vater verläßt jeden Morgen pünktlich das Haus, damit die Nachbarn nicht merken, daß er arbeitslos ist. In der Schule ist Henry »der Deutsche«, der die...

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

"The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems" ist eine posthum veröffentlichte Sammlung von Gedichten des amerikanischen Autors Charles Bukowski. Die Gedichte in diesem Band spiegeln Bukowskis charakteristischen Stil wider, der...

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by 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...