Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) 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.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 Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways. Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (1994), Screams from the Balcony (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.
Series
Books
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
1986
Ham on Rye
1982
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
2001
The Last Night of the Earth Poems
1992
Charles Bukowski Poetry Collection
2014
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
1983
Poems
Charles Bukowski
2004
The Roominghouse Madrigals
Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
1988
Septuagenarian Stew
1990
At Terror Street and Agony Way
1968
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
1969
The Laughing Heart
1996
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands
1963
South of No North
1973
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
1979
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
1974
Bukowski on Bukowski
1969
Essential Bukowski
Poetry
2016
All the Assholes in the World and Mine
2023
Open All Night
2000
On Drinking
2019
Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook
Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
2008
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
1972
A .45 to Pay the Rent
2017
Pulp
1994
War All the Time
1984
Run With the Hunted
A Charles Bukowski Reader
1962
New Poems Book 2
2011
حيوات خسيسة
2017
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain
New Poems
2003
Shakespeare Never Did This
1979
Charles Bukowski
Laughing with the Gods
1982
Bring Me Your Love
1983
Screams from the Balcony
1993
Tales of Ordinary Madness
1967
The Continual Condition
Poems
2009
Angeli so na dnu mojega kozarca
2025
Confession of a coward
1995
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
1972
Bukowski-Schultheiss
2010
On Love
2016
Bukowski Lives
Selected Poems of Charles Bukowski
2003
The Great Zen Wedding
1999
The Pleasures of the Damned
Poems, 1951-1993
2007
Factotum
1975
New Poems Book 3
2004
Reach for the Sun
Selected Letters 1978-1994, Volume 3
1999
Barfly
1983
On Writing
2015
New Poems Book One
2003
Selected Letters Volume 2
1965-1970
2004
Poems and Insults
1980
La gente parece flores al fin
2007
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
1969
Women
1978
Slouching Toward Nirvana
2005
Post Office
1971
Selected Letters
1958-1965
2004
Hot Water Music
1983
Amor É Tudo Que Nós Dissemos Que Não Era
2012
Good Poems for Hard Times
2005
Come On In!
2006
The Bell Tolls for No One
2015
Love Is a Dog from Hell
1977
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
1998
Betting on the Muse
Poems & Stories
1996
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
1999
Bukowski essencial
poesia
1900
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts
1965
Bukowski in the Bathtub
Recollections of Charles Bukowski
1997
Bukowski Reads His Poetry
1995
Kakva korist od naslova
1986
Hollywood
1989
sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way
New Poems
2002
As Buddha Smiles
2003
Garras del paraíso (Flash Poesía)
2018
Selected Letters Volume 4
1987-1994
2005
Storm for the Living and the Dead
Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
2017
Tutti gli anni buttati via
2010
Absence of the Hero
2010
Beerspit Night and Cursing
2001
Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window
1974
Una donna sulla strada
2016
Living on Luck
1995
Lo sciupafemmine di Hollywood Est
2012
The Genius Of The Crowd
1966
Swastika
1968
DANGLING TOURNEFORTIA
1981
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
The Uncollected Columns
2011
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way
The Writing Life
2018
Bone Palace Ballet
1997
On Cats
2015
