Books by Charles Bukowski
Born: 08/16/1920; Died: 03/09/1994Charles Bukowski Biography & Notes
Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994), was a Los Angeles poet and novelist. Bukowski is sometimes associated with the Beat Generation writers because of his informal style and non-conformist literary attitude, though he did not identify himself as a Beat. Bukowski closely associated his works with his home city of Los Angeles and wrote over fifty books before his death.
Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 after his mother, a native German, met his father, a Polish American serviceman, during the occupation of Germany at the end of World War I. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was two years old. During the Great Depression, Bukowski's father was often unemployed, and according to Bukowski, verbally and physically abusive. After graduating from Los Angeles High School, Bukowski attended Los Angeles City College for one year, taking courses in art, journalism, and literature.
At 24, Bukowski's short story "Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip" was published in Story Magazine. Two years later, another short story, "20 Tanks From Kasseldown," was published in Portfolio III's broadside collection. Bukowski grew disillusioned with the publication process and quit writing for almost a decade. He spent this period in Los Angeles, and roaming across the United States, working odd jobs and staying in inexpensive rooming houses. In the early 1950's Bukowski took a temporary job as a letter carrier with the United States Postal Service in Los Angeles, but quit after less than two years. In 1955 he was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer that was nearly fatal. When he left the hospital, he began to write poetry. He resumed drinking.
He returned to the post office in Los Angeles, where he worked as a clerk for over a decade. In 1965 a daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski, was born to Bukowski and Frances Smith. Smith and Bukowski lived together but were never married. In 1969 Bukowski quit his job at the post office to make writing his full time career, after being promised a monthly stipend of $100 "for life" from Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin. He was 49 years old. As he explained in a letter at the time, "I have one of two choices--stay in the post office and go crazy...or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve." Less than one month after leaving the postal service he finished his first novel, titled Post Office. In 1976 Bukowski met Linda Lee Beighle, a health food store owner. Two years later the couple moved from the East Los Angeles area, where Bukowski lived for most of his life, to the port town of San Pedro, at the Southern tip of Los Angeles. Bukowski and Beighle were married in 1985.
Bukowski died on March 9th, 1994 in San Pedro, California at the age of 73, shortly after completing the novel "Pulp", his last. The rites were conducted by Buddhist monks.
Work
Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the late 1950s and continuing on through the early 1990s, with the poems and stories being republished by Black Sparrow Press (now HarperCollins/ECCO) as collected volumes of his work. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print.
Bukowski acknowledged Anton Chekhov, Knut Hamsun, Ernest Hemingway, John Fante, Louis-Ferdinand Celine and others as influences on his writing. Though he is sometimes associated with the Beat Generation of writers because of his writing style, Bukowski didn't consider himself a Beat writer (like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg). Bukowski associated with Los Angeles. In a 1974 interview, he said, "You live in a town all your life, and you get to know every street corner. You've got the layout of the whole land. You have a picture of where you are....Since I was raised in L.A., I've always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. I've had time to learn this city. I can't see any other place than L.A."
One critic has described Bukowski's fiction as a "detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free." Since his death in 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings. Although he became an icon to the disaffected and those with problems stemming from alcoholism, his work has received little attention from academic critics. ECCO continues to release new collections of his poetry, culled from the thousands of works published in small literary magazines. A documentary movie about his life, Bukowski: Born Into This, was released in 2004.
Criticism and Biographies
* Hugh Fox - Charles Bukowski A Critical and Bibliographical Study - 1969
* Jory Sherman - Bukowski: Friendship, Fame & Bestial Myth - 1981
* Neeli Cherkowski - Bukowski - A Life - 1991
* Russell Harrison - Against The American Dream - 1994
* Amber O'Neil - Blowing My Hero - 1995
* Gerald Locklin - Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet - 1996
* Steve Richmond - Spinning Off Bukowski - 1996
* A.D. Winans - The Charles Bukowski/Second Coming Years - 1996
* Gay Brewer - Charles Bukowski, Twayne's United States Authors Series - 1997
* Jim Christy - The Buk Book - 1997
* John Thomas - Bukowski In The Bathtub - 1997
* Ann Menebroker - Surviving Bukowski - 1998
* Carlos Polimeni - Bukowski For Beginners - 1998
* Howard Sounes - Charles Bukowski. Locked in the arms of a crazy life - 1998
* Jean-Francois Duval - Bukowski and The Beats - 2000
* Gundolf S. Freyermuth - That's it. - 2000
* Daniel Weizmann (editor) - Drinking with Bukowski- Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row - 2000
* Aubrey Malone - the hunchback of east hollywood - 2003
* Jon Edgar Webb Jr. - Jon, Lou, Bukowski and Me - 2003
* Ben Pleasants - Visceral Bukowski - 2004
* Michael Gray Baughan - Charles Bukowski - 2004
* Enrico Francheschini - I'm Bukowski, and then? - 2005
* Barry Miles - Charles Bukowski - 2005
* Tom Russell - Tough Company - 2005 .
* David Charlson - Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast - 2005
* Linda King - Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski - 2006
Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 after his mother, a native German, met his father, a Polish American serviceman, during the occupation of Germany at the end of World War I. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was two years old. During the Great Depression, Bukowski's father was often unemployed, and according to Bukowski, verbally and physically abusive. After graduating from Los Angeles High School, Bukowski attended Los Angeles City College for one year, taking courses in art, journalism, and literature.
At 24, Bukowski's short story "Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip" was published in Story Magazine. Two years later, another short story, "20 Tanks From Kasseldown," was published in Portfolio III's broadside collection. Bukowski grew disillusioned with the publication process and quit writing for almost a decade. He spent this period in Los Angeles, and roaming across the United States, working odd jobs and staying in inexpensive rooming houses. In the early 1950's Bukowski took a temporary job as a letter carrier with the United States Postal Service in Los Angeles, but quit after less than two years. In 1955 he was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer that was nearly fatal. When he left the hospital, he began to write poetry. He resumed drinking.
He returned to the post office in Los Angeles, where he worked as a clerk for over a decade. In 1965 a daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski, was born to Bukowski and Frances Smith. Smith and Bukowski lived together but were never married. In 1969 Bukowski quit his job at the post office to make writing his full time career, after being promised a monthly stipend of $100 "for life" from Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin. He was 49 years old. As he explained in a letter at the time, "I have one of two choices--stay in the post office and go crazy...or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve." Less than one month after leaving the postal service he finished his first novel, titled Post Office. In 1976 Bukowski met Linda Lee Beighle, a health food store owner. Two years later the couple moved from the East Los Angeles area, where Bukowski lived for most of his life, to the port town of San Pedro, at the Southern tip of Los Angeles. Bukowski and Beighle were married in 1985.
Bukowski died on March 9th, 1994 in San Pedro, California at the age of 73, shortly after completing the novel "Pulp", his last. The rites were conducted by Buddhist monks.
Work
Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the late 1950s and continuing on through the early 1990s, with the poems and stories being republished by Black Sparrow Press (now HarperCollins/ECCO) as collected volumes of his work. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print.
Bukowski acknowledged Anton Chekhov, Knut Hamsun, Ernest Hemingway, John Fante, Louis-Ferdinand Celine and others as influences on his writing. Though he is sometimes associated with the Beat Generation of writers because of his writing style, Bukowski didn't consider himself a Beat writer (like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg). Bukowski associated with Los Angeles. In a 1974 interview, he said, "You live in a town all your life, and you get to know every street corner. You've got the layout of the whole land. You have a picture of where you are....Since I was raised in L.A., I've always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. I've had time to learn this city. I can't see any other place than L.A."
One critic has described Bukowski's fiction as a "detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free." Since his death in 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings. Although he became an icon to the disaffected and those with problems stemming from alcoholism, his work has received little attention from academic critics. ECCO continues to release new collections of his poetry, culled from the thousands of works published in small literary magazines. A documentary movie about his life, Bukowski: Born Into This, was released in 2004.
Criticism and Biographies
* Hugh Fox - Charles Bukowski A Critical and Bibliographical Study - 1969
* Jory Sherman - Bukowski: Friendship, Fame & Bestial Myth - 1981
* Neeli Cherkowski - Bukowski - A Life - 1991
* Russell Harrison - Against The American Dream - 1994
* Amber O'Neil - Blowing My Hero - 1995
* Gerald Locklin - Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet - 1996
* Steve Richmond - Spinning Off Bukowski - 1996
* A.D. Winans - The Charles Bukowski/Second Coming Years - 1996
* Gay Brewer - Charles Bukowski, Twayne's United States Authors Series - 1997
* Jim Christy - The Buk Book - 1997
* John Thomas - Bukowski In The Bathtub - 1997
* Ann Menebroker - Surviving Bukowski - 1998
* Carlos Polimeni - Bukowski For Beginners - 1998
* Howard Sounes - Charles Bukowski. Locked in the arms of a crazy life - 1998
* Jean-Francois Duval - Bukowski and The Beats - 2000
* Gundolf S. Freyermuth - That's it. - 2000
* Daniel Weizmann (editor) - Drinking with Bukowski- Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row - 2000
* Aubrey Malone - the hunchback of east hollywood - 2003
* Jon Edgar Webb Jr. - Jon, Lou, Bukowski and Me - 2003
* Ben Pleasants - Visceral Bukowski - 2004
* Michael Gray Baughan - Charles Bukowski - 2004
* Enrico Francheschini - I'm Bukowski, and then? - 2005
* Barry Miles - Charles Bukowski - 2005
* Tom Russell - Tough Company - 2005 .
* David Charlson - Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast - 2005
* Linda King - Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski - 2006
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Absence of the Hero by Charles Bukowski ( 2010) |
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Absence of the Hero by Charles Bukowski ( 2010) |
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Ask The Dust by John Fante ( 2006)
A struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel, Arturo Bandini falls in love with Camilla Lopez, a elusive, unstable Mexican waitress, and they embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship that inexorably descends into madness.
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At Terror Street and Agony Away by Charles Bukowski ( 2000)
This double CD features 130 minutes of the first-ever recordings of Charles Bukowski reading his own work. Culled from tapes made by Bukowski at his Los Angeles home in 1968 for biographer and rock critic Barry Miles, long before the author had begun regular public readings. Bukowski was so shy he insisted that he record alone. He reads both poetry and prose, gets thoroughly drunk during the recording, and bitches about his life, his landlord, and his neighbors.
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Barfly The Continuing Saga of Henry Chinaski by Charles Bukowski ( 1985) |
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Beauti - Ful and Other Long Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 1988) |
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Beerspit Night and Cursing The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967 by Charles Bukowski, Sheri Martinelli ( 2001)
The correspondence collected here reveals a gentler Bukowski than his literature depicts. Here he shares his insight and observations with longtime friend, modernist Sheri Martinelli, a painter and writer deeply involved in the evolution of mid-20th-century art and letters.
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Betting on the Muse Poems & Stories by Charles Bukowski ( 1996)
Recounts the life of Henry Chinaski, an indolent blue-collar intellectual, and his male and female friends, in a series of poems and stories.
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Bone Palace Ballet New Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 1997)
Like a great heavyweight in the ring with that final indomitable adversary, Bukowski went down swinging. The 175 posthumously published new poems of Bone Palace Ballet once again prove his mettle, showing the banged-up old champ still on his feet and gamely slugging it out with the inevitable: "after this long fight / I have no intention of / quitting short. / or late. / or satisfied". The life-narrative skills that made Bukowski the finest verse storyteller of his time are still alive and kicking in these verse tales, vivid fragments shored against time's ruin. The dance of death in Bukowski's bone palace takes shape as autobiography: yarns about his Depression childhood and early literary passions (from lusting after his high school English teacher to covertly devouring forbidden' books), his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant ("working on the last bottle of /wine, /the sheets of your / writing strewn across the / floor. / you have walked on and across / them, / your masterpieces, /and/either/they'll be read in /hell, /or perhaps / gnawed at by the/curious/mice"), and finally the bittersweet later years, when, having been rendered by history "just / another old fart in a world of old farts", he nonetheless remains able to look back over his shoulder at Fate with a measure of undefeatable defiance.
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Bring Me Your Love by Charles Bukowski ( 1983) |
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Buk Et Les Beats Essai Sur La Beat Generation ; Suivi D'Un Soir Chez Buk Entretien Inedit Avec Charles Bukowski by Charles Bukowski, Jean-Francois Duval ( 1998) |
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Bukowski Postcard Pack by Charles Bukowski ( 1997) |
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Bukowski Reads His Poetry by Charles Bukowski ( 1996) |
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A Bukowski Sampler by Charles Bukowski ( 1988) |
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Bukowski in the Bathtub Recollections of Charles Bukowski by John Thomas, Charles Bukowski, Philomene Long ( 1997) |
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The Bukowski/Purdy Letters A Decade of Dialogue, 1964-1974 by Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney, Al Purdy ( 1983) |
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski ( 1983) |
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Cameron Jamie by Philippe Vergne, Cameron Jamie ( 2007) |
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El Capitan Salio a Comer by Charles Bukowski ( 2003) |
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The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship by Charles Bukowski, Robert Crumb ( 1998)
Journals, with illustrations by Robert Crumb. Raw, iconoclastic, by turns rueful and hilarious, these last journals by Charles Bukowski have found their perfect match: the brilliant, outrageous comic art of Robert Crumb who has provided a portrait of the author plus twelve striking full-page drawings illustrating select passages from the text. Beginning in August 1991, these journals alternate between generous accounts of his gambling jaunts and the bizarre intrusions of fame: the interviewers, Hollywood glitterati, TV producers -- odd counterpoints to "the racetrack crowd ... the world brought down to size, life grinding against death and losing." Disarmingly candid, and salted with a particularly wry and gritty wisdom.
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Charles Bukowski Uncensored from the Run With the Hunted Session by Charles Bukowski ( 2000) From his early hardscrabble life to his literary success, Charles Bukowski's unique personality came alive through his work.In 1993, the year before he died, this counterculture icon recorded and published selections from his classic Run With the Hunted.Now, for the first time, additional material from that recording session is included on this special, expanded edition, including candid conversations between Bukowski, his wife, and his producer. For any fan of Charles Bukowski, these recordings are an intimate look at a brilliant and wild mind. Includes poems and selections from:Consummation of Grief; Less Delicate Than the Locust; are you drinking?; Ham on Rye; we ain't got no money, honey but we got rain; and The Genius of the Crowd |
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Charles Bukowski Laughing With the Gods Interview by Charles Bukowski, Fernanda Pivano ( 2000)
The bulk of this book is the transcript of a three-hour interview Bukowski granted to Italian critic and writer Pivano in 1980, but it is augmented by commentary and analysis of both Bukowski himself and his prodigious output and cultural influence.
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Come on In! by Charles Bukowski ( 2007) |
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The Continual Condition (Poems) by Charles Bukowski ( 2009)
A collection of never-before-published poems by the late influential poet and hard-drinking wild man of literature features more of his raw, tough poetry about such subjects as booze, work, and women. 30,000 first printing.
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Dangling in the Tournefortia by Charles Bukowski ( 1981)
More than a hundred poems about writing, mortality, the nature of success, and the relationship between men and women.
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Day It Snowed in L A by Charles Bukowski ( 1986) |
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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills by Charles Bukowski ( 1983) |
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The Dirty Realism Duo Charles Bukowski & Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, Michael Hemmingson ( 2008) |
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Erecciones, Eyaculaciones, Exhibiciones by Charles Bukowski ( 2004) |
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Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski ( 1972) |
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Factotum by Charles Bukowski ( 2006)
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, loner, and hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another, and from one bottle to the next. Reprint. (An IFC film, directed by Bent Hamer, written by Bent Hamer & Jim Stark, releasing August 2006, starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, & Marisa Tomei) (General Fiction)
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The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain New Poems by John Martin, Charles Bukowski ( 2004)
Throwing away the alarm clock my father always said, "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." It was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee, frying bacon and scrambled eggs. My father followed this general routine for a lifetime and died young, broke, and, I think, not too wise. Taking note, I rejected his advice and it became, for me, late to bed and late to rise. Now, I'm not saying I've conquered the world but I've avoided numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some common pitfalls and have met some strange, wonderful people one of whom was myself -- someone my father never knew.
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Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Socialist Community by Charles Bukowski ( 1990)
Although there is an abundance of scholarly inquiry into the effects on the Soviet socialist system of the historic reforms under Gorbachev's administration, relatively little attention has been paid to the impact these reforms might have on socialism outside the Soviet Union. This book makes a preliminary assessment of the impact of glasnost, perestroika, and related Soviet reforms on selected socialist countries. The sampling of socialist countries studied are roughly representative of the types of socialist states in existence today. The countries studied include Poland, Czechoslovakia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
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Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski ( 1982)
A down-and-out writer recalls his childhood, schooling, and the years leading up to World War II.
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Heat Wave by Charles Bukowski, Kenneth Price ( 1995) |
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Hollywood by Charles Bukowski ( 1998)
Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.
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Horses Don't Bet on People and Neither Do I by Charles Bukowski ( 1984) |
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Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski ( 1983)
Stories deal with human sexuality, grief, the relationship between men and women, writers, death, drifters, and family relations.
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In the Shadow of the Rose by Charles Bukowski ( 1991) |
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 2002)
Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.
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Life and Death in the Charity Ward by Charles Bukowski ( 1974) |
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Living on Luck Selected Letters 1960S-1970s by Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney ( 1995)
Bukowski's letters during the time he quit his job at the post office and applied himself completely to his writing.
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Love Is a Dog from Hell Poems, 1974-1977 by Charles Bukowski ( 1977)
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.
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Migrants in Europe The Role of Family, Labor, and Politics by Hans C. Buechler, Hans Christian Buechler ( 1987)
Although studies have been made of individual aspects of the problem, this volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of both the theoretical issues and the scope and variety of present-day migratory movements in Europe, together with their historical antecedents. In his introduction, Hans Buechler reviews significant previous research and outlines the theoretical framework of the present volume. The primary focus of the chapters that follow is the experience of migrants and of household members who remain at home, analyzed within the total context of migration in both host and sender countries. The effects of migration on family economy and kin relationships are examined in detail. Among the issues explored are economic decision-making processes in migrant households, the implications of migration for family landholding, ties between migrants and family left behind, and kin, friendship, and neighborhood networks. Other topics considered are the working and social environment experienced by migrants; labor policies and restrictions relating to employment, work permits, and workers' families; and the problems connected with returning home. The final section, a bibliographic essay by Judith-Maria Buechler, helps to put the various individual contributions in a wider perspective.
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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck by Charles Bukowski ( 1972)
An American poet reflects on the alienation, frustration, and resentment of men trapped by societal dictates and conventions.
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories by Charles Bukowski ( 1983) |
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The Movie Barfly by Charles Bukowski ( 1987)
A screenplay tells the story of Henry Chinaski, a down and out writer who spends most of his time drinking.
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The Movie, Barfly An Original Screenplay by Charles Bukowski for a Film by Barbet Schroeder by Charles Bukowski, Barbet Schroeder ( 1987) |
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The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps New Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 2001)
A volume of previously unpublished poems by America's favorite poet laureate of the bar stool.
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski ( 1981) |
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Open All Night New Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 2000)
Written from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994, these 189 recovered poems suggest that even his heaviest adversary, encroaching mortality, never made Bukowski flinch. The courage is undaunted, even if there's a strong hint of rue mixed into these deadpan nightcap comedies.
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The People Look Like Flowers at Last New Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 2007) |
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People Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 1991) |
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Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit by Charles Bukowski ( 1979)
A collection of short poems ruminates upon advancing age, dissipation, loneliness, and death.
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The Pleasures of the Damned Poems, 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski ( 2007)
Features top-selected works by the late iconic counterculture poet as written throughout his later years, in a volume that includes the last of his previously unpublished pieces. 30,000 first printing.
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The Pleasures of the Damned Poems, 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski ( 2008) |
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 by Charles Bukowski ( 2008) |
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook Uncollected Stories and Essays, 19441990 by Charles Bukowski ( 2008) |
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Post Office by Charles Bukowski ( 1980) |
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Pulp by Charles Bukowski ( 1994)
Nick Belane, a private detective, becomes involved in an unusual case when a mysterious client, who calls herself Lady Death, asks him to find the real Celine.
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Reach for the Sun Selected Letters, 1978-1994 by Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney ( 1999)
"The older I get the more I seem to explode with words, " the 71-year-old Bukowski wrote in 1991 to his longtime friend and publisher, John Martin. Volume 3 of Bukowski's selected letters reverberates with interesting aftershocks of Buk's last blasts. These lively, candid, funny and generous letters -- often written in the small hours of the morning, and addressed to magazine editors, publishers, fans and fellow writers -- give away quite a bit more than do most literary correspondences. Bukowski the detester of "fakers" has never been more real than here, nor more self-revealing.
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The Roominghouse Madrigals Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966 by Charles Bukowski ( 1988)
Poems deal with rejection, history, barbershops, friendship, death, longing, loneliness, and disappointment.
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Run With the Hunted A Charles Bukowski Reader by John Martin, Charles Bukowski ( 1994)
The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.
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Screams from the Balcony Selected Letters 1960-1970 by Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney ( 1993)
In letters from the 1960s, the poet recounts his efforts to succeed as a writer, his inability to quit his day job, and his battles with manic depression and other illnesses.
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Screams from the Balcony Selected Letters from 1960-1970 by Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney ( 1993)
In letters from the 1960s, the poet recounts his efforts to succeed as a writer, his inability to quit his day job, and his battles with manic depression and other illnesses.
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Septuagenarian Stew Stories and Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 1990) |
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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way New Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 2003) from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane" young young young, only wanting the Word, sifting through the madness for the Word, the no chance at all. |
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Six Poets by Charles Bukowski ( 1979) |
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Six Poets by Al Masarik ( 1973) |
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Slouching Toward Nirvana New Poems by Charles Bukowski ( 2006)
A third of five previously unpublished collections by the late author of The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain and Sifting through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way features his observations about the journey of life.
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South of No North Stories of the Buried Life by Charles Bukowski ( 1973) |
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South of No North; Stories of the Buried Life. Stories of the Buried Life by Charles Bukowski ( 1980) |
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Sunlight Here I Am Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993 by Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne ( 2003) |
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Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski ( 1984) |
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There's No Business by Charles Bukowski ( 1984) |
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Under the Influence A Charles Bukowski Checklist by Charles Bukowski ( 1987) |
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Visitor Complains of My Disenfranchise by Charles Bukowski ( 1986) |
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War All the Time Poems, 1981-1984 by Charles Bukowski ( 1984)
Poems deal with fame, the twenties, writing, death, nightlife, travel, love, horseracing, women, feminism, friendship, loneliness, and childhood.
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What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski ( 1999)
Charles Bukowski's gamble in art was as prolific as it was audacious. The second in Black Sparrow's series of posthumous volumes of Bukowski's poetry takes us deeper into the raw, wild vein that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s. As in Bone Palace Ballet (1997), Buk here observes the world with an "unadorned self-awareness" (Publishers Weekly) that makes each poem "a little nugget of roughneck-intellectual autobiography or attitude" (Booklist). The courage, candor, humor and human understanding of Bukowski's poetry commingle to create a kind of intuitive contact and gut wisdom not found in Western verse since Francois Villon. it's a farce, the great actors, the great poets, the great statesmen, the great painters, the great composers, the great loves, it's a farce, a farce, a farce, history and the recording of it, forget it, forget it. you must begin all over again. throw all that out. all of them out you are alone with now. look at your fingernails. touch your nose. begin. the day flings itself upon you.
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Women by Charles Bukowski ( 1978)
Tells the story of an ugly old man who has gone unloved for too long, but a change comes over him as he begins more and more relationships with women.
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You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski ( 1986)
Poems deal with solitude, silence, artists, death, aging, friends, hard times, gambling, music, and genius.
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