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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems

One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of m

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“The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Create, Art, burn, Destroy, Ordinary

“as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Alone, Happiness, Lonely