Who is Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski ( boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City.Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories a...
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Charles Bukowski Poems

• On Going Back To The Street After Viewing An Art Show
  they talk down through
  the centuries to us,
  and this we need more and more,
  the statues and paintings ...
• Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window
  Sunday, I am eating a
  grapefruit, church is over at the Russian
  Orthadox to the
  west. ...
• The Icecream People
  the lady has me temporarily off the bottle
  and now the pecker stands up
  better.
  however, things change overnight-- ...
• The Laughing Heart
  your life is your life
  don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
  be on the watch.
  there are ways out. ...
• As The Poems Go
  As the poems go into the thousands you
  realize that you've created very
  little.
  it comes down to the rain, the sunlight, ...

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Charles Bukowski Quotes

• You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
• I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing.
• You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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Comments about Charles Bukowski

• Meem_hye: charles bukowski, pass me that four square bro.
• Anniejo621: 'this self congratulatory nonsense, as the famous gather to applaud their seeming greatness, as the deathly talentless bow to accolades, as the fools are fooled again'... charles bukowski
• Thebeatbum: «to me it is still one man alone in a room, creating art of failing to create art. all else is bullshit..» ~charles bukowski~
• Mohamma99828984: if you ask about me a hundred people, you will find a hundred opinions in front of you. charles bukowski
• Dennisbhooper: don’t actually have a firm opinion on which french dip is better but cole’s is where i take people just because the location is incredible. amazingly well preserved old fashioned bar, plaques for mickey cohen and charles bukowski in the men’s room, they shot mad men there…

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