About the Book

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.

Resources

• Sample Embed

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780876851913
• ISBN 10: 087685191X
• Imprint: Ecco
• On Sale: 05/31/2002
• Pages: 240
• List Price:21.00 CAD
• BISAC1 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
• BISAC2 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
• BISAC3 : POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
• BISAC4 : POETRY / American / General

Charles Bukowski

Biography

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 for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

Other Works by Charles Bukowski

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  Charles Bukowski Uncensored Vinyl Edition

  By Charles Bukowski

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  On Drinking

  By Charles Bukowski

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  Storm for the Living and the Dead

  By Charles Bukowski