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Charles Bukowski

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On Love

by Charles Bukowski
On Love
On Love

Revealing love's gritty, tender, transformative facets.

If you've ever found love mystifying or raw, Bukowski's "On Love" could speak to you. His poetry dives deep into the paradoxes of love - its rough edges and tender moments alike. Expect a journey through his personal reflections that might mirror your own experiences, all delivered with a candidness that Bukowski fans cherish. Whether it's love's pains or pleasures, this collection will leave you contemplating the complex nature of the human heart.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

On Love

by Charles Bukowski
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ISBN: 9781782117285
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Poetry, Contemporary, Romance
Related Topics: Classics, Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.81
(rated by 3279 readers)

Description

A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection 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. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. 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. Bukowski is brilliant on love—often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. “My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough,” he writes, “as the same cat crouches.” Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.
 

Revealing love's gritty, tender, transformative facets.

If you've ever found love mystifying or raw, Bukowski's "On Love" could speak to you. His poetry dives deep into the paradoxes of love - its rough edges and tender moments alike. Expect a journey through his personal reflections that might mirror your own experiences, all delivered with a candidness that Bukowski fans cherish. Whether it's love's pains or pleasures, this collection will leave you contemplating the complex nature of the human heart.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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