Best Of Charles Bukowski - April 2024

Essential Bukowski: Poetry

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski’s unvarnished and self-deprec... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062565281
• ASIN: 0062565281
• ISBN: 0062565281
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

• ASIN: 0876858639
• ASIN: 0876858639
• ISBN: 9780876858639
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993

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. Celebra... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061228443
• ASIN: 0061228443
• ISBN: 0061228443
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: Ecco

On Drinking

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed “dirty old man,” Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and inspired. In On Drinking, Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writer’s most profound, funny, and memorable work on his ups ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062857932
• ASIN: 0062857932
• ISBN: 0062857932
• Manufacturer: Ecco

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.

• ASIN: 0876856830
• UPC: 884587089555
• ASIN: 0876856830
• ISBN: 9780876856833
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Black Sparrow Press

Post Office: A Novel

• ASIN: B000SEGDNG
• ASIN: B000SEGDNG
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Women: A Novel

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

• ASIN: 0061177598
• ASIN: 0061177598
• ISBN: 0061177598
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Love is a Dog From Hell

First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

• ASIN: 0876853629
• ASIN: 0876853629
• ISBN: 0876853629
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Ham On Rye: A Novel

• ASIN: B000SEHJGQ
• ASIN: B000SEHJGQ
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Pulp

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

• ASIN: 0876859260
• ASIN: 0876859260
• ISBN: 9780876859261
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Factotum

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0876852630
• ASIN: 0876852630
• ISBN: 9780876852637
• Brand: Brand: Ecco
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Hollywood

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot.  He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld called Hollywood, with its parade of eccentric and maddening characters: producers, artists, actors and actresses, film executives and journalists.  In this world, the artistry of books and film is lost to the dollar, and Chinaski struggles to keep ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000W94HDA
• ASIN: B000W94HDA
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns

"He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house—read 'em and weep."—Tom Waits After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and a book of that name in 1969. He continued writing this column, in one form or another, through the mid-1980s. More Notes of a Dirty Old Man gathers many uncollected gems from the column's twenty-year run. Drawn from ephemeral underground publications,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0872865436
• ASIN: 0872865436
• ISBN: 0872865436
• Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published. In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated a collection of rare and never- before-seen material—poems from obscure, hard-to-find maga... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062656511
• ASIN: 0062656511
• ISBN: 0062656511
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Charles Bukowski's Scarlet

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "It began as a whim"--an impulsive meeting between the iconic Charles Bukowski and his famed muse, Pamela "Cupcakes" Wood--that leads to a two-year relationship Wood chronicles in this memoir. Her story is refreshingly blunt as she details their often ridiculous, yet charming relationship. This is a Bukowski enthusiast's dream--an immersion into his life with the independent and spirited "Scarlet," the woman he wrote about in the book of the same name. She appears as "Tammie" in Bukowski's book Women. What was the powerful chemistry between Bukowski and the woman w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0941543587
• ASIN: 0941543587
• ISBN: 9780941543583
• Manufacturer: Sun Dog Press

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Charles Bukowski, Including His Education, Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as Hollywood, Factotum, Ham on Rye, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide

• UPC: 53542775

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Charles Bukowski, Including His Education, Genres, and Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as Women, Pulp, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide

• UPC: 186015664

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Charles Bukowski, Including His Early Years, Best Sellers Such as Post Office, Factotum, Movie Adaptation

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Charles Bukowski, Including His Early Years, Best Sellers Such as Post Office, Factotum, Movie

• UPC: 302970022

CHARLES BUKOWSKI: The Best of Impetus (Softcover, 1996) Like New / Free Shipping

• UPC: 352521390982
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 24 USD

UNDERGROUND DIGEST: THE BEST OF THE UNDERGROUND PRESS- INCLUDES CHARLES BUKOWSKI

• UPC: 252352370194
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 200 USD