Dangling in the Tournefortia

Informationen zum Autor 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 mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel,  Pulp . Abel Debritto , a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of  Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground , and the editor of the Bukowski collections  On Writing ,  On Cats , and  On Love . Klappentext There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure. Zusammenfassung “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter There is not a wasted word in  Dangling in the Tournefortia,  a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Charles Bukowski
• Verlag: Ecco Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2002
• EAN: 9780876855256
• ISBN: 978-0-87685-525-6
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 149 mm x 227 mm x 17 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Memoirs, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: writers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, DRAMA: Shakespeare, POETRY: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: POETS: A TO B, POETRY: General, POETRY: Haiku *, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Poetry by form: Haiku, Poetry / Poets: A to B