Essential Bukowski: Poetry

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark.

Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the midafternoon. Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there's a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.

Here is Bukowski at his most hilarious and heartbreaking, his most raw and profound; here is Bukowski at his best.