Charles Bukowski, Bukowski Charles, John Martin The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 English · Paperback / Softback

Zusatztext "This long and well-edited collection is likely to stand as the definitive volume of Bukowski's poems." 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 To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street-tough poems whose truth has struck a chord with generations of readers. Edited by John Martin, the legendary publisher of Black Sparrow Press and a close friend of Bukowski's, The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best works from Bukowski's long poetic career, including the last of his never-before-collected poems. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extra-ordinary and surprising sensibility, and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a rich lifetime of experiences and speak to Bukowski's "immense intelligence, the caring heart that saw through the sham of our pretenses and had pity on our human condition" ( The New York Quarterly ). The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both longtime fans and those just discovering this unique and legendary American voice. Zusammenfassung “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter The Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski, America’s most influential and imitated American poet. To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he struck a chord with generations of readers with his raw and honest poetry about booze, work, and women, that spoke to his fans as “real” and, like the work of the Beats, even dangerous. The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best works of Bukowski’s later years, edited by John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, including the last of his new, never-before-published poems. This essential collection captures the voice of a Los Angeles literary legend: Counterculture Icon: See the world through the eyes of the hard-drinking wild man of American letters, a stubborn outsider who spoke for generations of the disaffected. Los Angeles Literature: Experience the gritty, sun-bleached streets and smoky bars of L.A. that defined Bukowski’s world and became the backdrop for his most powerful work. Poems About Life: Find unflinching reflections on booze, work, women, and survival in direct, accessible language that feels as real and dangerous today as it did decades ago. Never-Before-Published Work: Discover the last of Bukowski’s uncollected poems, presented here for the first time in a definitive volume selected by his longtime editor, John Martin. ...

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• Authors: Charles Bukowski, Bukowski Charles
• Assisted by: John Martin (Editor)
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 02.12.2008
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780061228445
• ISBN: 978-0-06-122844-5
• Pages: 556
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm
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