The Continual Condition: Poems

Charles Bukowski: Edited By John Martin

ISBN 10: 0061771201 / ISBN 13: 9780061771200

Published by HarperCollins, New York, 2009

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First edition stated with complete number line. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 Book; binding tight, boards straight and clean; crease to top corner to first page else text free of marks, appears gently read. Dust jacket ($25.99) has mild bumping to most of top and bottom edges. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

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Bibliographic Details

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

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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.