Play the Piano Drunk like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers - Begin to Bleed a Bit

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 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. Zusammenfassung “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Charles Bukowski
• Editore: Ecco Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2002
• EAN: 9780876854372
• ISBN: 978-0-87685-437-2
• Pagine: 128
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Epic, United States of America, USA, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Medieval style, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Women Authors, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: POETS: A TO B, POETRY: General, POETRY: Medieval, POETRY: Epic, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Classic fiction: general and literary, Poetry / Poets: A to B