His book Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground was published by Palgrave MacMillan.
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or making a vicious attack on contemporary writers. Through it all, Bukowski remains the same
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Stripped of all pretense, his letter writing becomes a crystal-clear snapshot of Bukowski’s mood at the tim
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Spontaneity is also obvious in Bukowski’s correspondence. First thought, best thought, he seems to say in most letters
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To Bukowski, there was no difference. Letters were a vehicle to express who he was, no matter to whom he was writing.
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Poetry, fiction, and correspondence fall into the very same category for Bukowski: art. He is equally intense when addressing people for the first time
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Similarly, some of the letters read like stories, as if he were actually writing a well-developed short story
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It is as if Bukowski were writing poems in letter form—he repeatedly claims that letters are as important as poems.
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Indeed, it’s Bukowski at his best: raw, witty, and deeply moving, taking no prisoners while delivering the goods.
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Add to this rare material some of the most passionate letters Bukowski ever wrote, and this volume of correspondence is easily as compelling as any other of his collections.