Dangling in the Tournefortia
By (Author) Charles Bukowski
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ECCO Press
5th March 2018
United States
General
Non Fiction
Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Poetry by form: Haiku
Classic and pre-20th century plays
Biography: general
Biography: writers
Anthologies: general
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Gender studies: women and girls
811.54
Paperback
288
Width 149mm, Height 227mm, Spine 17mm
299g
There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure.
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).