BUKOWSKI CHARLES

(P/B) COME ON IN!
Now published in the UK for the first time, Come On In! is Charles Bukowski at his sad, hilarious, renegade best: a sequence of poems you'll want to read from beginning to end. Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets. This collection is from an archive that the author left to be published after his death. It includes poems of love and sex, advice to so-called losers (as he once was) to have confidence in them...
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(P/B) THE MATHEMATICS OF THE BREATH AND THE WAY
In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb, deflating pretentions and tearing down idols armed with only a typewriter and a bottle of beer. From numerous tales of the author's adventures at poetry readings, parties, film sets, and bars, to an unprecedented gat...
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(P/B) BUKOWSKI ON BUKOWSKI (INCLUDES CD)
For many people who are caught out of place and time in our society, drink is not a slow form of suicide but a deterrant from it. Drink is the only music and dance they are allowed. The last cheap and available miracle. When I came in from the slaughterhouse or the parts factory, that bottle of wine was my god in the sky. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) BURNING IN WATER, DROWNING IN FLAME
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life....
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(P/B) YOU GET SO ALONE AT TIMES THAT IT JUST MAKES SENSE
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE LAST NIGHT OF THE EARTH POEMS
Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ROOMING HOUSE MADRIGALS
The Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly....
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(P/B) HOLLYWOOD
'What will you do?' 'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.' 'What are you going to call it?' 'Hollywood.' Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known stars and lays bare the absurdity and egotism of the film industry. Poetic, sharp and dangerous, Hollywood - Bukowski's fictionalisation of his experiences making the film Barfly - explores the many dark shadows to be found in the neon-soaked gl...
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(P/B) ON WRITING
A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life to. Piercing, unsentimental and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with the author's trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos and intimacy....
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(P/B) PULP
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...
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(P/B) BRING ME YOUR LOVE
Fifteen pages of story and illustrations. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FACTOTUM
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. Factotum follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 an...
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(P/B) PLAY THE PIANO DRUNK LIKE AN PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT UNTIL THE FINGERS BEGIN TO BLEED A BIT
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HOT WATER MUSIC
"LESS DELICATE THAN THE LOCUST" "Balls," he said, "I'm tired of painting. Let's go out. I'm tired of the stink of oils, I'm tired of being great. I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out." "Go out where?" she asked. "Anywhere. Eat, drink, see." "Jorg," she said, "what will I do when you die?" "You will eat, sleep, fuck, piss, shit, clothe yourself, walk around and bitch." "I need security." 'We all do." "I mean, we're not married. I won't even be able to collect your insurance." 'That's all right, don't worry about it. Besides, you don't ...
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(P/B) BETTING ON THE MUSE
-warning- upon your darkened red mouth wild birds scream and bowls of fish swim their jungles, a China morning, a withered noon of axes and witches; you desire a man-plagued sun and strands of fiber calling my name; beware, I am not your silly husband, I am your silly lover and of all your silly lovers, the last one here....
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(P/B) NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN
"One day after the races, I sat down and wrote the heading Notes of a Dirty Old Man, opened a beer, and the writing got done by itself... Just sit by the window, lift the beer and let it come. Anything that wanted to arrive, arrived." This collection of Bukowski's columns for an underground LA newspaper epitomizes his style of gritty realism. Writing as himself, or his alter-ego, Henry Chinaski, Bukowski delves into America's lowlife to eulogise life's losers and antiheroes. Packed with violence, women, gambling and booze, Bukowski's semi...
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(P/B) MOCKINGBIRD WISH ME LUCK
-drunk ol' bukowski drunk- I hold to the edge of the table with my belly dangling over my belt and I glare at the lampshade the smoke clearing over North Hollywood the boys put their muskets down lift high their fish-green beer as I fall forward off the couch kiss rug hairs like cunt hairs close as I've been in a long time....
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ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΕΙΣ ΕΝΟΣ ΠΟΡΝΟΓΕΡΟΥ (ΠΡΩΤΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΟ)
Ο Τσαρλς Μπουκόβσκι υπήρξε για χρόνια ο λυρικός και ο αφηγητής της λογοτεχνίας του περιθωρίου. Ασυνήθιστα πνευματώδης και συχνά με έναν παραμυθένιο ρεαλισμό, επιθετικός και βωμολόχος, περιγράφει την άλλη πλευρά του "American way of life", αυτήν που οδηγεί από το Αμερικάνικο Όνειρο στον Αμερικάνικο Εφιάλτη. Οι Σημειώσεις ενός Πορνόγερου άρχισαν να δημοσιεύονται το Μάιο του 1967 στην εναλλακτική εφημερίδα του Λος Άντζελες Open City και πολύ γρήγορα έκαναν τον συγγραφέα τους διάσημο σε όλον τον κόσμο. Είναι η αυτοβιογραφία σε συνέχειες ενός α...
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ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΕΙΣ ΕΝΟΣ ΠΟΡΝΟΓΕΡΟΥ (ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΟ)
Ο Τσαρλς Μπουκόβσκι στάθηκε για χρόνια ολόκληρα ο λυρικός και ο αφηγητής της λογοτεχνίας του περιθωρίου, γνωστός μόνο στους λίγους. Ασυνήθιστα πνευματώδης και συχνά μ’ έναν παραμυθένιο ρεαλισμό, επιθετικός, βωμολόχος και αισχρός, περιγράφει την άλλη πλευρά του «American way of life», αυτή που οδηγεί το Αμερικάνικο Όνειρο στον Αμερικάνικο Εφιάλτη. Οι «Σημειώσεις ενός Πορνόγερου» είναι η αυτοβιογραφία σε συνέχειες ενός ανθρώπου που βρίσκεται σε θέση επισφαλή. Κάθε πρόταση που ο Τσαρλς Μπουκόβσκι χαράζει πάνω στο χαρτί, μπορεί να είναι η τελ...
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(P/B) THE CONTINUAL CONDITION
Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski remains a counter-culture icon more than a decade after his death. The Continual Condition is a collection of never-before-published poems by the inimitable Bukowski-raw, tough, odes to alcohol, women, work, and despair by a rebel author equally adept at poetry and prose. Charles Bukowski lives on in The Continual Condition, a godsend for admirers of his previous collections Slouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned, and Love...
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