Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

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 Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty. Zusammenfassung “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Bukowski
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2002
• EAN: 9780876851388
• ISBN: 978-0-87685-138-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Short Stories, erotic fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, United States of America, USA, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Contains explicit or offensive material or content, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), POETRY: American / General, FICTION: Classics, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, FICTION: Erotica / Collections & Anthologies