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GCDS-9780872860742 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100112680 02 0872860744 03 9780872860742 15 9780872860742 BC 1 A01 Bukowski, Charles Charles Bukowski <p>Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.</p><p>Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including <em>Pulp</em> (Black Sparrow, 1994), <em>Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970</em> (1993), and <em>The Last Night of the Earth Poems</em> (1992). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.</p> 01 eng 256 01 <P>"People come to my door-too many of them really-and knock to tell me <em>Notes of a Dirty Old Man</em> turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away. . ."</p> 02 "People come to my door-too many of them really-and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends... 08 "Bukowski writes like a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about futility and beauty of life..." Publishers Weekly 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100112680/images/87286100112680L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100112680/images/87286100112680S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100112680 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19810601 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19810601 01 02 15.95 USD