Essential Bukowski: Poetry
Written by Charles Bukowski
Narrated by Eric Meyers
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‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet
‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen
The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark
Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.
Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there’s a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.
Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heart-breaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.
Charles Bukowski
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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just as I have done on two occasions, I’m going right back to listen again.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome! Must listen. Go for it. Life changing stuff.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A soothingly crisp collection of astonishing raw and uncooked emotions
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is awesome I think, is that 10 word now?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Raw and rough as a tramp’s chin. Bukowski tells it like it was for him and his poems are all the better for it. I had never read any poetry even close to this in terms of darkness, crudeness or at times, creepiness! But there is light and dark throughout and his observations of humour in poverty, in pain, in violence are hilarious.
I listened to this as I walked my dog after crappy days and I have to say it never failed to cheer me up!
Enjoy. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bukowski was a great poet. Loved this collection. Preferable to his fiction for me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A review about a poetry book is, in my opinion, a complex thing. i feel you either hate or love it. in between is not allowed. And that’s that.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5loved the poems selected and the narrator was just phenomenal
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dead nut on. Have read all Bukowski's works and they could not be more exact.