Charles Bukowski (16 August 1920 – 9 March 1994 / Andernach)

ya i love bukowski! ! ! did you know that they are turning Factotum into a movie pretty soon? i think mid august- apperently its soundtrack kicks butt too!

Does anyone have news or reviews from the Factotum movie?

Thank you Henry...........

this man is amazing, really. im porbably a lot younger then many people who admire this guy but seriously... hes so... i dont know, buddy neilson from senses fail got me interested in him.

Quite possible the second most profound sexual predator of the 20th century. Jon

I raise a toast in your name
everytime i drink
my dear Chinaski
and i curse at you
silently and privately
cos i cant wait to get drunk
with you
in the afterlife.

Albert

This guy is absolutely amazing. Writing this great while drinking that much? all I can say is 'Wow.'

I need to know where I can find the poem titled 'gamblers all', in what book. I hope somebody can help me. Thanks!

To survive without adding to the horror is sometimes the best we can do. The courage and cunning it takes to live this way makes what little art or decency we have possible. Until the sometimes wistful and poignant poems Bukowski wrote in old age, his central theme, both comically and tragically, involved the battering struggle of the individual writer, worker, lover in a violently exploitative and humanly deranged world. Readers feel permeated by the best of his poems because of the simplicity with which he expresses passion, and paradoxically conveys the butchery done to it, and the butchery endured, by people.

Hank, you were the man.