The Continual Condition Poems

Bukowski, Charles

ISBN 10: 0061771201 / ISBN 13: 9780061771200

Published by Ecco, New York, 2009

About this Item

Small remainder mark on page block near spine. Some scuffing and edgewear to dust jacket ; Binding is tight, pages clean and unmarked. Edited by John Martin.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 p.

Seller Inventory # 4236

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Continual Condition Poems
• Publisher: Ecco, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061771201
• ISBN 13: 9780061771200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Printing.
• Condition: NF
• Dust Jacket Condition: NF

About this title

Synopsis

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”

—Joyce Carol Oates

 

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”

—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

 

Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski remains a counter-culture icon more than a decade after his death. The Continual Condition is a collection of never-before-published poems by the inimitable Bukowski—raw, tough, odes to alcohol, women, work, and despair by a rebel author equally adept at poetry and prose. Charles Bukowski lives on in The Continual Condition, a godsend for admirers of his previous collections Slouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned, and Love is a Dog From Hell, as well as his novels Factotum, Ham on Rye, and Pulp.

About the Author

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 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.