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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872861565 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100196140 02 0872861562 03 9780872861565 15 9780872861565 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> These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses), he is critically recognized as one of America's greatest realist writers.</p> <P> Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to America at the age of two. Eighteen or twenty books of prose and poetry, Bukowski, after publishing prose in <em>Story</em> and <em>Portfolio</em>, stopped writing for ten years. He arrived in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital, hemorrhaging as a climax to a ten year drinking bout. Some say he didn't die. After leaving the hospital he got a typewriter and began writing again—this time, poetry. He later returned to prose and gained some fame with his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man. After 14 years in the Post Office he resigned at age 50, he says, to keep from going insane. He now claims to be unemployable and eats typewriter ribbons.</p> 02 These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France... 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100196140/images/87286100196140L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100196140/images/87286100196140S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100196140 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19830601 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19830601 01 02 15.95 USD