On Drinking
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The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol.
Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writerโs best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed โdirty old man,โ Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful and inspired.
In On Drinking, Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writerโs most profound, funny, and memorable work on his ups and downs with the hard stuffโa topic that allowed Bukowski to explore some of lifeโs most pressing questions. Through drink, Bukowski is able to be alone, to be with people, to be a poet, a lover, and a friendโthough often at great cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled โDrinking,โ: โfor me/it was or/is/a manner of/dying/with boots on/and gun/smoking and a/symphony music background.โ
On Drinking is a powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers.
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Charles Bukowski is one of Americaโs 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 over 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.Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.
