THE LIFE OF THE GREAT DUDE

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Charles Bukowski was born in Germany in 1920. His mother was German and his father was a soldier in the US invasion army. They have known and lovwd each other in the cruel atmosphere of the World War 1. When little Charles was two years old, the family emigrated to USA, Los Angeles. Always having problems with his parents, Charles left home when he was 21 and began travelling around the U.S. He had his first story published in 1944, when he was only 24. He began writing poems in 1955. Up to now, 45 books of Bukowski have been published and translated into many world languages. He died in 1994 of natural reasons.

List of his literary works

Flower,Fist and Bestial Wall

Longshot Poems for Broke Players

Run with the hunted

It catches my heart in its hand

Crucifix in a dead hand

Cold dogs in the courtyard

Confessions of a man insane enough to live with beasts

All the assholes in the world and mine

The curtains are waving

Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window

At terror street and agony way

At Bukowski sampler

Notes of a dirty oldman

Days run away like wild horses over the hills

Fire station

Post office

Another academy

Anthology of L.A. poets

Mocking bird, wish me luck

Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions and tales of ordinary madness

South of no north

Burning in water, drowning in frame

Factotum

Scarlet

Love is a dog from hell

Women

You kissed Lilly

Play the piano drunk like a percussion instruement until the fingers begin to bleed a bit

Shakespeare never did this

Dangling in the tournefortia

Ham on rye

Hot water music

Bring me your love

There' s no business

War all the time

You get so alone at times it just makes sense

The movie " BARFLY "

A visitor complains of my disenfranchise

Roominghouse madrigals: early selected poems

Hollywood

Septuagenarian stew

People poems

Bluebird

In the shadow of the rose

Three poems

Last night of the earth poems

Run with the hunted: a Charles Bukowski reader

Screams from the balcony

Pulp

Shakespeare never did this ( augmented edition )