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On Love

On Love

by Charles Bukowski (Author), Abel Debritto (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2016

    $21.20
Synopsis

'My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough as the same cat crouches' In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance and redemptive power. Whether writing about his daughter, his lover, or his work, Bukowski is fiercely honest and reflective, using love as a prism to look at the world and to view his own vulnerable place in it. Memorably moving and, at times, hilarious, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 04 Feb 2016
ISBN 10: 1782117288
ISBN 13: 9781782117285
Book Overview: Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives

Media Reviews
A literary immortal * * Time * *
He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels -- Leonard Cohen
The best poet in America -- Jean Genet
Reflective, humane, tremendously evocative and absorbingly readable * * The Times * *
Author Bio
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there the rest of his life. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.