Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski--America's "Ultimate Outsider"
Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation
Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted
Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more...
Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski--America's "Ultimate Outsider"
This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom.
This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the ...
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....
To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was--and remains--the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stu...
This book brings together experts in international relations and comparative politics in order to examine the sociopolitical and economic issues of individual socialist countries and to investigate specific issues cross-nationally. In addition to summarizing recent events that have affected the politics of the socialist community, the contributors speculate about possible future developments. Arguing that socialist states are beset by problems that their institutional structures are unable to handle, the contributors agree that virtually all of the states examined require some form of...
This book brings together experts in international relations and comparative politics in order to examine the sociopolitical and economic issues of...
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Although there is an abundance of scholarly inquiry into the effects on the Soviet socialist system of the historic reforms under Gorbachev's administration, relatively little attention has been paid to the impact these reforms might have on socialism outside the Soviet Union. This book makes a preliminary assessment of the impact of glasnost, perestroika, and related Soviet reforms on selected socialist countries. The sampling of socialist countries studied are roughly representative of the types of socialist states in existence today. The countries studied include Poland, Czechoslovakia,...
Although there is an abundance of scholarly inquiry into the effects on the Soviet socialist system of the historic reforms under Gorbachev's admin...
Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poems were kept by him and his publisher for posthumous publication. This title presents a collection of these poems.
Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of po...
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter 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...
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwrite...
In der Schule ist Henry Chinaski der Sauerkrautfresser. Dort lernt er rasch, da er sich im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes durchschlagen mu, wenn er nicht selbst untergehen will. - Charles Bukowskis Jugend im Amerika der 20er und 30er Jahre.
In der Schule ist Henry Chinaski der Sauerkrautfresser. Dort lernt er rasch, da er sich im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes durchschlagen mu, wenn er nicht s...
