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    Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems

    By Charles Bukowski

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    “Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and The Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

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

    Los Angeles slums, bars, and more are featured in Slouching Toward Nirvana, the third of five books of unpublished poems from Charles Bukowski, considered by many to be America’s most imitated and influential poet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061979989
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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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    • 5/5
      Poem after poem after poem....spot on. So much good stuff....
    • 4/5
      Reading Bukowski I feel a bit like I'm getting away with something and might get caught at any moment. Maybe an English professor will come out of the shadows to sternly admonish me that this is "not real poetry." Whether it is real or not, Bukowski's writing is uncomfortable to me in all the ways that poetry ought to be. It is rough and the sound is ordinary, but the depth of it is easy to see after only a few poems. I don't want to say that there are hidden meanings or, worse, teachable moments in here, so much as I want to say that I keep sinking into the pieces and they change my mind. If a professor does come around the corner to admonish me, I'll hit him upside his head with the book and tell him to beat it before I kick his ass.