Charles Bukowski is recognized as an international literary figure. His first poem, "Hello!," celebrating the black driver of a horse-drawn trash wagon, was published in a mimeograph magazine called Matrix in 1946, when Bukowski was twenty-six years...

Charles Bukowski , an internationally recognized literary figure, first published a short story, "Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip," in Story magazine in 1944, when he was twenty-four years old; he began writing and publishing poetry at the age of...

A prolific and seminal figure in underground literature, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) is best known for poetry and fiction in which he caustically indicts bourgeois society while celebrating the desperate lives of alcoholics, prostitutes, decadent...

The reader of Charles Bukowski's poetry can feel certain of having strong reactions. Anger? The reader does not err if he is furious at the liberties Bukowski takes with content and style. Sympathy? The wailings of this writer-sufferer are all too...