The Continual Condition: Poems [Paperback]

“The Walt Whitman ofLos Angeles.”

—Joyce Carol Oates

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”

—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski remains a counter-culture icon more than a decade after his death.TheContinual Conditionis a collection of never-before-published poems by the inimitable Bukowski—raw, tough, odes to alcohol, women, work, and despair by a rebel author equally adept at poetry and prose. Charles Bukowski lives on inTheContinual Condition,a godsend for admirers of his previous collectionsSlouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned,andLove is a Dog From Hell,as well as his novelsFactotum, Ham onRye,andPulp.

In the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture luminary. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he has struck a chord withl³"