Charles Bukowski the poet was an important figure in the counter-culture days of the 1960s.
This collection of new poems was published posthumously for Bukowski died in 1994. An alcoholic, a social outcast, often poverty-stricken, Bukowski's subject matter was Los Angeles itself and the so-called losers or marginalised people
Come on in! : new poems covers familiar territory...sex and alcohol and relationships. An excerpt from his poem "down and out on the boardwalk' summarises his rather special gift:
she described
her boyfriend
in detail
to me
then took out her
guitar
and started
singing.
later that night
I sodomised her
and told her
not to
come
around any
more.
I got lucky:
she
didn't.
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