Betting on the Muse
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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
Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.
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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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The poems and short fiction span the length of his writing career. This collection was published 2 years after his death ('94). Some really excellent stuff in here, some of the usual ponies, women, drinking, and the writing.4 stars oc
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The interesting thing about Bukowski's posthumous publications is that they do not show a linear descent in quality. Instead, as always, things go up and down as they will. Sifting Through Madness For The Word, The Line, The Way proves to be a better book even though it was released later, and therefore one might presume closer to scraping the bottom of that proverbial barrel. This book is better than Septuagenarian Stew, but it definitely stutters as it gets to the end.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent collection focusing more on old age and death. Not as much of the hilariously vulgar stuff like in LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL. there are some GREAT poems in here. A good book to start with if new to Bukowski, though maybe not the BEST one to start with since it packs more of a punch to read about Bukowski's ideas of death after reading HAM ON RYE and some of the poetry from the 60s.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not his best volume, and there a a lot to choose from. I recommend Love is a Dog From Hell as part of anyone's collection of poetry. This one, however, is decent. It has a couple of Bukowski's excellent, witty, and insightful poems.