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In the third edition of “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry,” in which poets appear in order of birth, the class of 1920 fields a strong team, including Howard Nemerov and Amy Clampitt. If you were to browse the poetry section of any large bookstore, you would probably find a book or two by each of those critically esteemed, prize-winning poets. Nowhere to be found in the canonizing Norton anthology, however, is the man who occupies the most shelf space of any American poet: Charles Bukowski. Bukowski’s books make up a burly phalanx, with their stark covers and long, lurid titles: “Love Is a Dog from Hell”; “Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.” They give the impression of an aloof, possibly belligerent empire in the middle of the republic of letters.

Bukowski himself, and his many, many readers, would not have it any other way. John Martin, the founder of Black Sparrow Press, who was responsible for launching Bukowski’s career, has explained that “he is not a mainstre

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Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and emigrated to the United States with his parents two years later. Bukowski had lived the life of a skid row alcoholic until he was treated for an ulcer problem in 1955. He replaced his excessive drinking with writing poetry, and published the poetry collection Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail in 1960.

Bukowski went on to write novels, short stories, and more poetry. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1974, the Loujon Press Award, and the Silver Reel Award. Bukowski’s more famous works include his novels featuring protagonist Henry Chinaski, such as Post Office (1971) and Ham on Rye (1982), and his Notes of a Dirty Old Man, a collection of writing gathered from columns he wrote for the alternative Los Angeles newspaper Open City.

Widely known as a poet, Bukowski’s work emitted a sense of anti-heroism, ruggedness, and anarchism. Bukowski lived and worked on the edge, having questioned the validity of society’

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Charles Bukowski

American writer (1920–1994)

"Bukowski" redirects here. For other uses, see Bukowski (disambiguation).

Henry Charles Bukowski (boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German:[ˈhaɪnʁɪçˈkaʁlbuˈkɔfski]; 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.^[4] 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.^[5]^[6]

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 and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books during the course of his career. Some of these works include his Poems Wri