Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Biographies
  3. Diaries and letters

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
0.0(0)

Essential Bukowski : Poetry

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.

Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski’s unvarnished and self-deprecating verse illuminates the deepest and most enduring concerns of the human condition while remaining sharply aware of the day to day.

With his acute eye for the ridiculous and the troubled, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience. Gloomy yet hopeful, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace.

This is Essential Bukowski.


Author:

  • Charles Bukowski

Narrator:

  • Johnny Heller

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 2 h 38 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Biographies
  • Diaries and letters
  • Essays and reportage
  • Anthologies

More by Charles Bukowski

Skip the list
  1. You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

    Charles Bukowski

    audiobook
  2. Love is a Dog From Hell

    Charles Bukowski

    audiobook
  3. Essential Bukowski: Poetry

    Charles Bukowski

    audiobook
  4. Women : A Novel

    Charles Bukowski

    audiobook
  5. Hollywood

    Charles Bukowski

    audiobook
  6. Ham On Rye : A Novel

    Charles Bukowski

    audiobook
  7. Götz George liest Charles Bukowski

    Charles Bukowski

    audiobook

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

    Thomas De Quincey

    book
  2. The Enchanted Wanderer

    Nikolai Leskov

    audiobook
  3. The Twelve Caesars : The Lives of the Roman Emperors

    Suetonius

    audiobookbook
  4. Life Among the Savages

    Shirley Jackson

    audiobook
  5. Rainer Maria Rilke: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter : Lebenswahrheiten des großen Poeten umrahmt von Musik seiner Zeit

    Rainer Maria Rilke

    audiobook
  6. Briefe an einen jungen Dichter : Mit den Briefen von Franz Xaver Kappus

    Rainer Maria Rilke

    book
  7. A Gallery of Poisoners

    Adrian Vincent

    audiobook
  8. The Wonderful World of James Herriot : A Charming Collection of Classic Stories

    James Herriot

    audiobook
  9. King of the Godfathers

    Anthony M. DeStefano

    audiobook
  10. Christoph Kolumbus - Der Don Quichote des Ozeans

    Jakob Wassermann

    audiobook
  11. Citadelle. Illustrée

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    book
  12. Usårlig

    David Goggins

    audiobookbook

  • 8 books

    Charles Bukowski

    Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms · Imprint ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5