The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 by Bukowski, C

ISBN: 0061228443

Author: Bukowski, Charles

Condition: new

The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.-Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling authorHe brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.-Leonard Cohen, songwriterThe Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski, Americas most influential poet.To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was-and remains-a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women, that spoke to his fans as real and, like the work of the Beats, even dangerous.The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best works of Bukowskis later years, edited by John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, including the last of his new, never-before-published poems.