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'''Charles Bukowski''' ([[August 16]], [[1920]] - [[March 9]], [[1994]]), [[United States|American]] [[poet]] and [[novelist]], was born in [[Andernach]], [[Germany]] and moved to [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[California]] three years later. He lived there much of his life. |
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He acknowledged [[Anton Chekhov]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[John Fante]], [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] and others as influences on his writing, and was also knowledgeable about [[classical music]]. He was extremely prolific, publishing over 40 books of [[poetry]] and prose between [[1960]] and the early [[1990s]]. |
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One critic described Bukowski's fiction as a "detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free." [http://bostonreview.net/BR19.3/fiction.html] |
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Bukowski spent much of his life among the denizens of Hollywood's underbelly, and he was a long-term functional [[alcoholism|alcoholic]]. One of his poems describes his enjoyment of having a medical checkup at which he found that his drinking had had no perceptible effect on his health. |
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The film ''[[Barfly]]'', starring [[Mickey Rourke]], was based on his life, the main character being his alter-ego, Henry Chinaski. His novel ''Hollywood'' was based on the tribulations of making this film. |
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A documentary called ''Bukowski: Born Into This'' was released in American theaters on [[July 9]], [[2004]], generally to good reviews. Actor [[Sean Penn]] and singer [[Bono]], friends and fans of Bukowski, appear in the film. |
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An adaptation of Bukowski's second novel, ''Factotum,'' will be filmed starting in April 2004 in Minnesota. |
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==Books by Charles Bukowski== |
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*''Flower, Fist and Bestial Wall'' (1960) |
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*''Longshot Pomes for Broke Players'' (1962) |
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*''Run with the Hunted'' (1962) |
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*''It Catches My Heart in Its Hand'' (1963) |
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*''Crucifix in a Deathhand'' (1965) |
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*''Cold Dogs in the Courtyard'' (1965) |
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*''Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts'' (1965) |
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*''All the Assholes in the World and Mine'' (1966) |
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*''The Curtains Are Waving...'' (1967) |
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*''Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window'' (1968) |
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*''At Terror Street and Agony Way'' (1968) |
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*''A Bukowski Sampler'' (1969) |
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*''Notes of a Dirty Old Man'' (1969) |
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*''Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills'' (1969) |
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*''Fire Station'' (1970) |
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*''Post Office'' (1971) |
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*''Another Academy'' (1970) |
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*''Anthology of LA Poets'' (1972) |
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*''Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck'' (1972) |
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*''Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness'' (1972) |
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*''South of No North'' (1973) |
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*''Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973'' (1974) |
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*''Factotum'' (1975) |
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*''Scarlet'' (1976) |
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*''Love is a Dog from Hell'' (1977) |
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*''Women'' (1978) |
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*''You Kissed Lilly'' (1978) |
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*''Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit'' (1979) |
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*''Shakespeare Never Did This'' (1979) |
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*''Dangling in the Tournefortia'' (1981) |
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*''Post Office'' (1981) ISBN 0876850875 |
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*''Ham on Rye'' (1982) |
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*''Hot Water Music'' (1983) |
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*''Bring Me Your Love'' (illustrated by [[Robert Crumb]])(paperback, 1985) ISBN 0876856067 |
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*''There's No Business'' (1984) |
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*''War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984'' (1984) |
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*''You Get So Alone at Times It Just Makes Sense'' (1986) |
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*''The Movie "Barfly"'' (1987) |
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*''A Visitor Complains of My Disenfranchise'' (1987) |
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*''Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966'' (1988) |
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*''Hollywood'' (1989) |
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*''Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems'' (1990) |
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*''People Poems'' (1991) |
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*''Bluebird'' (1991) |
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*''In the Shadow of the Rose''(1991) |
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*''Three Poems'' (1992) |
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*''Last Night of the Earth Poems'' (1992) |
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*''Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader'' (1993) |
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*''Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970'' (1993) |
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*''Pulp'' (1994) |
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*''Shakespeare Never Did This'' (augmented edition) (1995) |
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*''The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems'' (2003) ISBN 0060577010 |
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*''Sifting Through The Madness for the Word, The Line, The Way: New Poems'' (2003) ISBN 00600568232 |
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==Books about Charles Bukowski== |
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*'''Neeli Cherkowski''' - ''Bukowski - A Life'' |
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*'''Howard Sounes''' - ''Charles Bukowski. Locked in the arms of a crazy life'' |
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==See also== |
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*[[Black Mountain Poets]] |
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[[Category:1920 births|Bukowski, Charles]] |
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[[Category:1994 deaths|Bukowski, Charles]] |
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[[Category:Beat writers|Bukowski, Charles]] |
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