EAN: 9780062857941

BUKOWSKI CHARLES ON DRINKING

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for
his entire life: alcohol. Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of
poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s best and most lasting work. A
self-proclaimed “dirty old man ” Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel  a conflicted
relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and
illuminating. In On Drinking   Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writer’s most
profound  funny  and memorable work on his ups and downs with the hard stuff—a topic that
allowed Bukowski to explore some of life’s most pressing questions. Through drink  Bukowski is
able to be alone  to be with people  to be a poet  a lover  and a friend—though often at great
cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled “drinking”: “for me   it was or   is   a
manner of   dying   with boots on   and gun   smoking and a   symphony music background.” On
Drinking is a powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink  and a window
into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers.

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