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    The Last Night of the Earth Poems

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    by Charles Bukowski


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    • ISBN-13: 9780876858639
    • Publisher: HarperCollins
    • Publication date: 05/31/2002
    • Pages: 408
    • Sales rank: 28,035
    • Product dimensions: 5.88(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.02(d)

    Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for more than fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

    Brief Biography

    Date of Birth:
    August 16, 1920
    Date of Death:
    March 9, 1994
    Place of Birth:
    Andernach, Germany
    Place of Death:
    San Pedro, California
    Education:
    Los Angeles City College, 2 years
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    Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

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    Library Journal
    ``A. Huxley died at 69/ much too early for such a/ fierce talent.'' Now in his seventh decade, Bukowski is preoccupied with death, but in such a way that he spices his usual flat monotone with bits of welcome humor. While continuing his focus on life in bars and at the racetrack, these poems enlarge the meditative tone begun in You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense ( LJ 1/87). Bukowski remembers the first time he read great authors or heard classical composers; he reflects on old friends, co-workers, and lovers, but with a new gentleness, as in ``Darkling,'' a wonderfully lyric love poem to his wife. Poems such as this make it easier to spot the poetic craft at work behind Bukowski's understated common speech. Finally, the poet's emphasis on reflection and mellowed tone will, one hopes, enlarge the poet's huge but specialized readership.-- Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, ``Soho Weekly News,'' New York
    Booknews
    How does Bukowski, undoubtedly the most published of contemporary American poets, maintain his integrity among the admirers and sycophants? A: he has no integrity; or B: he only writes about what he knows. Published by Black Sparrow Press, 24 Tenth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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