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On Love

2016199 pagesHarperCollins

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This poetry collection captures Charles Bukowski's raw and vulnerable reflections on love, lust, and desire. He explores the many facets of love, from its selfishness and misery to its joy and redemptive power, with his characteristic blend of toughness and sensitivity. Bukowski offers piercingly honest insights into his own life and relationships, using love as a lens to view the world's beauty and cruelty.

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Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, and 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. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having over 60 books in print. In 1986 Time called Buko...

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