Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.
Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His writing often featured a depraved metropolitan environment, downtrodden members of American society, direct language, violence, and sexual imagery, and many of his works center around a roughly autobiographical figure named Henry Chinaski. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including
Pulp
(Black Sparrow, 1994),
Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970
(1993), and
The Last Night of the Earth Poems
(1992). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.
A Selected Bibliography
Poetry
2 by Bukowski
(1967)
A Love Poem
(1979)
Africa, Paris, Greece
(1975)
All the Assholes in the World and Mine
(1966)
Another Academy
(1970)
At Terror Street and Agony Way
(1968)
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems, 1955-1973(1974)
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard
(1965)
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts
(1965)
Crucifix in a Deathhand: New Poems, 1963-1965
(1965)
Dangling in the Tournefortia
(1981)
Fire Station
(1970)
Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail
(1959)
Grip the Walls
(1964)
If We Take...
(1969)
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands: New and Selected Poems, 1955-1963
(1963)
Legs, Hips, and Behind
(1978)
Longshot Pomes for Broke Players
(1962)
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977
(1977)
Love Poems to Marina
(1973)
Maybe Tomorrow
(1977)
Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems
(1972)
Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck
(1972)
Night's Work
(1966)
On Going Out to Get the Mail
(1966)
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
(1979)
Poems Written before Jumping out of an 8-story Window
(1968)
Poems and Drawings
(1962)
Run with the Hunted
(1962)
Scarlet
(1976)
Sparks
(1983)
The Curtains Are Waving
(1967)
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills
(1969)
The Flower Lover
(1966)
The Genius of the Crowd
(1966)
The Girls
(1966)
The Last Generation
(1982)
The Last Night of the Earth Poems
(1992)
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966(1988)
To Kiss the Worms Goodnight
(1966)
True Story
(1966)
War All the Time: Poems, 1981-1984
(1984)
Weather Report
(1975)
While the Music Played
(1973)
Winter
(1975)
sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way
(2003)
Fiction
Barfly
(1984)
Bring Me Your Love
(1983)
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
(1972)
Factotum
(1975)
Ham on Rye
(1982)
Hollywood
(1989)
Horsemeat
(1982)
Hot Water Music
(1983)
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
(1969)
Post Office
(1971)
Pulp
(1994)
South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life
(1973)
There's No Business
(1984)
Women
(1978)
Letters
Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970
(1993)
The Bukowski/Purdy Letters: A Decade of Dialogue, 1964-1974
(1983)
Poetry & Prose
Septuagenarian Stew
(1990)
|Archiver|手机版|小黑屋|中诗网
( 京ICP备：12024093号-1|
京公网安备 11010502045403号 )
发表于 2010-12-2 23:31:40