The Portland Mercury

Here's Charles Bukowski's Book About Cats You Didn't Ask For

he too knows it's bullshit but that somehow it all helps. Bukowski also happened to be one of our more raging misogynists of poetry*—he once said, "If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women ...
PBS

Bukowski’s poems were mangled by editors after his death. Now you can read his originals

When Abel Debritto first started researching and writing about Charles Bukowski, he knew that the prolific underground poet, short story writer and novelist, who had written thousands of poems in his ...
Los Angeles Times

Celebrating Charles Bukowski, ‘poet laureate of L.A. lowlife’

Charles Bukowski was called many things: “poet laureate of L.A. lowlife,” “the enfant terrible of the Meat School poets,” “the prophet of the underemployed” and “a flamboyant provincial.” Those ...
The Independent

Charles Bukowski, A Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems, book review: There’s gold in this gutter

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Charles Bukowski – the “laureate of American lowlife” – remains a divisive figure more than 20 years after his death. His belligerent ...
Los Angeles Times

Do we need to admire Charles Bukowski to honor his poetry?

Oscar Wilde went to prison in 1895 for flaunting his homosexuality. Ezra Pound was indicted for treason in 1943 for broadcasting on behalf of the Italian fascists in the Second World War. Dylan Thomas ...