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

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Fine with a faint spine lean, in Near Fine lightly crimped and lightly rubbed publisher's unprinted acetate wrapper. it all finally vanished / like a paperclip in a / bag of trash and I / reached over and flicked off the set and / slept well for the first time / in a week and a half. A. in English and is currently working on the final book of her fantasy series, The Fallenwood Chronicles. She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eurydike no longer needs any love?

Two sticker shadows on front endpaper, the clear acetate dust jacket has some rubbing as usual otherwise fine. 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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. 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. 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.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 book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.

To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Number 66 of a limited 75 copies signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original painting by him bound in. 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. She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eury.

First published in 1977, "Love Is a Dog from Hell" is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. 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. Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities.

For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). 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. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies.Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. 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.