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Charles Bukowski Poems Pdf Short Stories
Charles Bukowski Poetry Pdf
Charles Bukowski (1921-1994) is a poet of bluntness. With over 120 poems, most of these are easily associated with because of the manner in which each of these poems comes forth. Where poets of the older eras typically kept with a rhyme scheme or in some instances deliberately tried to make their works metaphorical and mystical, Charles. Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski 334.7k. Charles Bukowski. From 'poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window' - 1966.
This was the first of Bukowski's works I encountered.
I was skipping English class to read in the library about Hemingway and Fitzgerald. I had loaded my arms with books about them and their relationship and while I walked back to the area I was sitting, I shot out my hand randomly and picked a book from the shelves. Not knowing what it was, what it was named, who wrote it, just for the hell of it. As soon as I sat down I opened to the first page and began reading the first poem. It was magic. The ease of the words, such flow, such poignance. I was in love. After finishing the first poem, I flipped the book over and began reading from the back toward the front. I finished the entire book there and found myself a new, wonderful writer to read. Screw Hemingway and Fitzgerald!
The Last Night of the Earth Poems was written in his later life, when Bukowski began to concentrate on poetry rather than stories. As with all his end-work, he focuses on memories, the word, literature, and what it means to be a writer; the transition to old age and success, and the fate of death. Most Bukowski fans, I assume, will love the earlier stuff. The crazy stuff. The stuff they can relate to. But I've always been an old man at heart. The Last Night of the Earth Poems is my favorite, not only of Bukowski's, but of all time.