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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 inspired.
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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Charles Bukowski
Charles BUKOWSKI s-a născut în Germania, la Andernach, în 1920, dar a copilărit şi şi-a petrecut cea mai mare parte din viaţă în SUA. A studiat la Los Angeles City College, dar a abandonat cursurile şi a dus o viaţă dezordonată, scriind cu pasiune şi schimbând diverse slujbe pentru a supravieţui. A publicat prima povestire la 24 de ani, iar în 1960 a debutat cu un volum de versuri. În 1969 Bukowski a semnat un contract de exclusivitate cu Black Sparrow Press, ceea ce i-a permis să se dedice exclusiv scrisului. Autor prolific, a publicat numeroase volume de poezie, antologii de povestiri şi romane, devenind unul dintre cei mai citiţi scriitori americani contemporani.
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