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    Play the Piano

    By Charles Bukowski

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    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

    “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

    Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061877582
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    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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      The best poems in this collection reverberate with the atmosphere of a blue collar Zen Koan written waist deep into a case of beer, but even the best here on not on par with the best poems in other Bukowski collections. There are quite a few poems that fall flat. When considering Bukowski's output in the seventies, Love is a Dog from Hell is the better collection by a considerable amount, if you have to choose.