Essential Bukowski: Poetry

Written by Charles Bukowski

Narrated by Eric Meyers

‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet

‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark

Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.

Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there’s a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.

Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heart-breaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Release date: Nov 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9780008223663

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) fue el último escritor «maldito» de la literatura norteamericana. En Anagrama se han publicado sus seis novelas, Cartero, Factótum, Mujeres, La senda del perdedor, Hollywood y Pulp; seis libros de relatos, Escritos de un viejo indecente, Erecciones,eyaculaciones, exhibiciones, La máquina de follar, Se busca una mujer, Música de cañerías e Hijo de Satanás; los libros autobiográficos Shakespeare nunca lo hizo y Peleando a la contra; los diarios de El capitán salió a comer y los marineros tomaron el barco; el libro de entrevistas con Fernanda Pivano Lo que más me gusta es rascarme los sobacos; los textos reunidos en Fragmentos de un cuaderno manchado de vino. Relatos y ensayos inéditos (1944-1990) y Ausencia del héroe. Relatos y ensayos inéditos (1946-1992), así como su biografía Hank. La vida de Charles Bukowski, de Neeli Cherkovski. En esta colección se ha publicado también un volumen con sus tres primeros libros de relatos (Escritos de un viejo indecente, La máquina de follar y Erecciones, eyaculaciones, exhibiciones).

Reviews for Essential Bukowski

[Ojehonmon Okugbe · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Just as I have done on two occasions, I’m going right back to listen again.

[Shubham Gune · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome! Must listen. Go for it. Life changing stuff.

[Saddam Hussain · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A soothingly crisp collection of astonishing raw and uncooked emotions

[Martyna Bremer · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is awesome I think, is that 10 word now?

[Sam Sinclair · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Raw and rough as a tramp’s chin. Bukowski tells it like it was for him and his poems are all the better for it. I had never read any poetry even close to this in terms of darkness, crudeness or at times, creepiness! But there is light and dark throughout and his observations of humour in poverty, in pain, in violence are hilarious.
I listened to this as I walked my dog after crappy days and I have to say it never failed to cheer me up!
Enjoy.

[fredo gumbo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Bukowski was a great poet. Loved this collection. Preferable to his fiction for me.

[vladimiro sousa · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A review about a poetry book is, in my opinion, a complex thing. i feel you either hate or love it. in between is not allowed. And that’s that.

[Slavomíra Nemčíková · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

loved the poems selected and the narrator was just phenomenal

[untraveller · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dead nut on. Have read all Bukowski's works and they could not be more exact.