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. 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.

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. 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.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. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. 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.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). 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. 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. First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over red flecked patterned corduroy cloth backstrip, hand bound by Earle Gray. 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.