Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems – Rare American Poetry, Hilarious and Ringing with Humanity - Softcover

Bukowski, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006265652X ISBN 13: 9780062656520

Publisher: Ecco, 2019

Synopsis

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems

Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published.

In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated a collection of rare and never- before-seen material—poems from obscure, hard-to-find magazines, as well as from libraries and private collections all over the country. In doing so, Debritto has captured the essence of Bukowski’s inimitable poetic style—tough and hilarious but ringing with humanity. Storm for the Living and the Dead is a gift for any devotee of the Dirty Old Man of American letters.

A definitive addition to the Bukowski canon, this volume unearths:

• Unpublished Poems: A treasure trove of never-before-seen material, rescued from libraries and private collections across the country.
• Uncollected Works: The best of Bukowski's raw and powerful verses, finally collected from the obscure, hard-to-find magazines where they first appeared.
• Dark Humor: The unmistakable voice of the "Dirty Old Man" of American letters—tough, cynical, and hilarious, yet always ringing with a profound and defiant humanity.
• Definitive Curation: Meticulously curated by scholar Abel Debritto to capture the full spectrum and essence of Bukowski's inimitable poetic style.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems.

Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published.

In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated a collection of rare and never-before-seen material—poems from obscure, hard-to-find magazines, as well as from libraries and private collections all over the country. In doing so, Debritto has captured the essence of Bukowski’s inimitable poetic style—tough and hilarious but ringing with humanity. Storm for the Living and the Dead is a gift for any devotee of the Dirty Old Man of American letters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006265652X
• ISBN 13: 9780062656520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272