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Essential Bukowski: Poetry

By: Charles Bukowski, Abel Debritto - editor
Narrated by: Eric Meyers
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‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet

‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark

Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.

Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there’s a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.

Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heart-breaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.

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‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet

‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen
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There is no one quite like Bukowski that I can relate to. He is the only famous person I can think of that is relatable in so many different levels and these poems are so easy to listen to

Cute like a knife

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Overflowing with the prurient and the profane, but there's optimism in there. Hilarious in its dejected way. Give it a shot if you're a fellow sufferer.

Good for your hope reflex

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