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 long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his production. This collection is selected from an archive of verse 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 themselves (as he did), gambling laments and humbling poems accepting his own imminent ultimate full stop.
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A sequence of poems you'll want to read from beginning to end, Come On In! is Charles Bukowski at his sad, hilarious, renegade best.
'The thing about Bukowski is, when you read what he has to say, he's right.' Sean PennNow 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 themselves (as he did), gambling laments and poems accepting his own imminent ultimate full stop.'If you have never read Bukowski you've got a treat in store.' Lemn Sissay'In an age of conformity Bukowski wrote about the people nobody wanted to be: the ugly, the selfish, the lonely,the mad.' Observer'The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.'Joyce Carole Oates'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.' Leonard Cohen'A laureate of American low life.' Time
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The thing about Bukowski is, when you read what he has to say, he's right.
A sequence of poems you'll want to read from beginning to end, Come On In! is Charles Bukowski at his sad, hilarious, renegade best.

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ISBN
9781847670403
Publisert
2008-01-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Canongate Books
Vekt
205 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

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Charles Bukowski was 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 Andernach, Germany, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry when he was thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three.