Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
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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
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.
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: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I don't really go for this cultivating-the-image-of-the-bohemian-poet/bastard stuff. Yeah, I get it, no one loves you because you're an asshole; can the next poem be about something different please? It's well written for what it is, though, and a fast read.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was my first Bukowski book, given to me by Mom some 30+ years ago with the hope that I would start reading poetry. It did. It also opened my world to his crazy world. I tried to emulate him. I'm sober now but I got a lot unpublished poetry and stories that I share with family, friends and AA meetings.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5my favorite collection of bukowski poems by far