Love is a Dog From Hell: Poems, 1974-1977

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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.

A classic in the Bukowski canon, "Love Is a Dog from Hell" is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. Fine with a faint spine lean, in Near Fine lightly crimped and lightly rubbed publisher's unprinted acetate wrapper. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Number 3 of 5 presentation copies, marked as such on the rear colophon; signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original painting by him bound in. It is about lessons of love, resistance, loneliness, isolation, and how lessons leave bruises, then sometimes break. Most books of poetry eventually grow tedious to read through, but reading Bukowski’s work is always a joy, as he breaks with poetic traditions, delves into taboo subjects, and, like all good art, challenges you to form an interpretation. A. in English and is currently working on the final book of her fantasy series, The Fallenwood Chronicles. Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. This collection also contains one of my very favorite Bukowski poems, “an almost made up poem” that a friend of mine sent to me once when I was very depressed, following a betrayal: “kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. Two sticker shadows on front endpaper, the clear acetate dust jacket has some rubbing as usual otherwise fine. She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eurydike no longer needs any love?

Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. First published in 1977, "Love Is a Dog from Hell" is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. The book is bound in the publisher's original cloth with pictorial boards and is in excellent condition. A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eury. 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. Near Fine with a faint lean to the binding, light tanning to contents with a faint stain to the fore edge and slight darkening to the inner front hinge at the top. First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. Number 66 of a limited 75 copies signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original painting by him bound in.To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. The first poem, “Sandra,” has echoes of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, with its theme of a beautiful woman and a narrator who’s too smart to fall for her trap.