Books by Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poems were kept by him and his publisher for posthumous publication, This is the first collection of these unique poems.

Henry Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature.

The autobiographical coming-of-age modern classic by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years. Neeli Cherkovski was a close friend of Bukowski and is the author of Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski (Random House, 1991)

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.

A selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski

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

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

YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MANLow life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova.

'The best poet in America' Jean Genet'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard CohenThe definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring markHere is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there's a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heart-breaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.

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

Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for the underground newspaper Open City. Perennially drunk, broke and in search of a woman, Bukowski takes on the guise of a wise fool as he ventures through America's seedy lowlife.

Charles Bukowski lays bare Hollywood, revealing the absurdity and egotism behind the glamour

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century.Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he's been hired to do. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Celine - who's meant to be dead - but he's also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow - which may or may not be real.

This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s.

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work.

This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his 'tales of ordinary madness'.

The sequel to his famous book, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man reprints rare Bukowski columns unseen in decades.

"if you read this after I am deadIt means I made it"-"The Creation Coffin"The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski.

Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of anecdotal short stories demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and his mastery of visceral language and the depiction of seamy underworlds.

Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.

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

Fifteen pages of story and illustrations.

Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.

”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”Med det hele ... Ikke bare en slapper med brød – uden farve. Men en rigtig kradser.” – Erik Thygesen, Information

"Ekstrabudene … spræller uregerligt af styrke, humor og smerte i sit portræt af det marginaliserede USA.” – Information På den amerikanske vestkyst i Los Angeles arbejder Henry Chinaski for postvæsnet. Vi følger ham i en hverdag præget af faste rutiner, hvor dagen begynder tidligt med at dele breve ud, mens fritiden fordrives med hestevæddeløb, druk til langt ud på natten og talrige og sporadiske romancer med mange forskellige kvinder, før det igen bliver morgen, og hele rumlen starter forfra.Ekstrabudene er Bukowskis debutroman og er den første af i alt fem semibiografiske romaner om Bukowskis alter ego Henry Chinaski. Romanen blev hurtigt en bestseller og cementerede Bukowskis renomme som en vigtig og vedkommende forfatter, der råt for usødet tegner et præcist portræt af det moderne samfund og det moderne menneske."Hvordan det går Chinaski, skal ikke røbes her, for der er måske nogen, der endnu ikke ved det. I så fald er det blot om at komme i gang med Ekstrabudene, der spræller uregerligt af styrke, humor og smerte i sit portræt af det marginaliserede USA.” – Tonny Vorm, Information“Den notoriske drukkenbolt Charles Bukowski skrev efter sigende denne debutroman på en måneds tid. Historien om hans tid som liderligt ekstrabud og postsorterer rummer al den ’ubarberede følsomhed med fartstriber i underbukserne’ som han afpudsede i de følgende, endnu bedre romaner og i sine mange, sejlivede digte.” – Kim Skotte, Politiken“Han snakker om fornedrelse og om at være udskud. Det er ligesom om, han er et udøvende eksperiment, som om han gør det med vilje. Han vil være dér nede på bunden for at opsnappe de ting, som os, der lever et normalt liv aldrig nogensinde oplever, ser, hører eller lugter. Men ensomheden er også et stort projekt for ham, også fordi det er et kolossalt tabu.” – Information“Ekstrabudene skal læses som den er skrevet – hurtigt og intenst. Og som sådan tilbyder den en ganske stærk og enestående læseoplevelse, der på sin egen særlige facon er både berusende, morsom og til tider poetisk.” – Kåre Moll Christiansen, Litteraturnu.dk“Bukowskis tørre humor og stærke karakterer, behændigt illustreret med kortfattet, enkel tale, gør romanen levende og tiltalende.” – The Guardian“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams og beatpoeterne flyttede i hver deres generation poesi hen imod et mere naturligt sprog. Bukowski flyttede den lidt længere.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review“Udspekuleret, ubønhørlig sjov og trist.” – ObserverCharles Bukowski (1920-1994), der ofte betegnes som kultforfatter, var en af efterkrigstidens mest markante amerikanske forfattere. Han beskæftigede sig i både lyrik og prosa 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: Ekstrabudene (1971), Alt forefaldende arbejde (1975), Kvinder (1978), Med det hele … (1982) og Hollywood (1989).Copyright © 1971 by Charles Bukowski Produced by arrangement with Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers LLC. All rights reserved.

The letters contained on this text are filled with passionate, literary and personal observation, providing an insight into both Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli.