Charles Bukowski

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Poeta fenomenal contemporaneo, muy oscuro, realista y depresivos. La palabra que encuentro que mejor describe sus escritos es viceral. Los mas poderosos y impactantes para mi son Bluebird, The laughing heart, Cows in Art Class, Raw with love y Cause and Effect May 17

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Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles . [ 6 ] It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife". [ 7 ] Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal. . . [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero." [ 8 ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski
hooray say the roses, today is blamesday and we are red as blood. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hooray-say-the-roses/

Hooray Say The Roses by Charles Bukowski

Friends Within The Darkness by Charles Bukowski

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/friends-within-the-darkness/ I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible-- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect. the old composers -- Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms were the only ones who spoke to me and they were dead. finally, starved and beaten, I had to go into the streets to be interviewed for low-paying and monotonous jobs by strange men behind desks men without eyes men without faces who would take away my hours break them piss on them.
we are always asked to understand the other person's viewpoint no matter how out-dated foolish or obnoxious. one is asked to view their total error their life-waste with kindliness, especially if they are aged. but age is the total of our doing. they have aged badly because they have lived out of focus, they have refused to see. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/be-kind/

Be Kind by Charles Bukowski