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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872861558 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100279630 02 0872861554 03 9780872861558 15 9780872861558 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 248 00 248 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy California Writers 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 01 <P>With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.</P> 02 With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in... 08 Bukowski... "a professional disturber of the peace... laureate of the Los Angeles netherworld (writes with) a crazy romantic insistence that losers are less phony than winners, and with an angry compassion for the lost." Jack Kroll, Newsweek 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100279630/images/87286100279630L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100279630/images/87286100279630S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100279630 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19840101 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19840101 01 02 15.95 USD