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Born in August 16, 1920 / Died in March 9, 1994 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail, Hearse Press, 1959.
  • Longshot Poems for Broke Players, 7 Poets Press, 1961.
  • Run with the Hunted, Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, 1962.
  • Poems and Drawings, EPOS, 1962.
  • It Catches My Heart in Its Hands: New and Selected Poems, 1955-1963, Loujon Press (New Orleans, LA), 1963.
  • Grip the Walls, Wormwood Review Press, 1964.
  • Cold Dogs in the Courtyard, Literary Times, 1965.
  • Crucifix in a Deathhand: New Poems, 1963-1965, Loujon Press (New Orleans, LA), 1965.
  • The Genius of the Crowd, 7 Flowers Press, 1966.
  • True Story, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1966.
  • On Going out to Get the Mail, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1966.
  • To Kiss the Worms Goodnight, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1966.
  • The Girls, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1966.
  • The Flower Lover, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1966.
  • Night's Work, Wormwood Review Press, 1966.
  • 2 by Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1967.
  • The Curtains Are Waving, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1967.
  • At Terror Street and Agony Way, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1968.
  • Poems Written before Jumping out of an 8-Story Window, Litmus (Salt Lake City, UT), 1968.
  • If We Take... , Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1969.
  • The Days Run away like Wild Horses over the Hills, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1969, reprinted, 1993.
  • Another Academy, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1970.
  • Fire Station, Capricorn Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1970.
  • Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1972.
  • Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems, Kisskill Press (Los Angeles, CA), 1972.
  • While the Music Played, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1973.
  • Love Poems to Marina, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1973.
  • Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems, 1955-1973, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1974.
  • Chilled Green, Alternative Press, 1975.
  • Africa, Paris, Greece, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1975.
  • Weather Report, Pomegranate Press, 1975.
  • Winter, No Mountain, 1975.
  • Tough Company, bound with The Last Poem by Diane Wakoski, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1975.
  • Scarlet, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1976.
  • Maybe Tomorrow, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1977.
  • Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1977.
  • Legs, Hips, and Behind, Wormwood Review Press, 1979.
  • Play the Piano Drunk like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1979.
  • A Love Poem, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1979.
  • Dangling in the Tournefortia, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1981; republished, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2002.
  • The Last Generation, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1982.
  • Sparks, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1983.
  • War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1984.
  • The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1988.
  • Beauti-ful and Other Long Poems, Wormwood Books and Magazines, 1988.
  • People Poems: 1982-1991, Wormwood Books and Magazines, 1991.
  • The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1992.
  • (With Kenneth Price), Heat Wave, Black Sparrow Graphic Arts (Santa Rosa, CA), 1995.
  • Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1997.
  • The Captain Is out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1998.
  • What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk through the Fire, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1999.
  • Open All Night: New Poems, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 2000.
  • The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps, Ecco (New York, NY), 2002.
  • Sifting Through the Madness for the Line, the Word, the Way, Ecco (New York, NY), 2004.
  • Slouching Toward Nirvana, Ecco (New York, NY), 2005.
  • Come On In! Ecco (New York, NY), 2006.
  • The People Look like Flowers at Last, Ecco (New York, NY), 2007.
  • The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems 1951-1993, Ecco (New York, NY), 2007.
  • The Continual Condition, Ecco (New York, NY), 2009.
  • Absence of the Hero, City Lights Publishers (San Francisco, CA), 2010.

NOVELS

  • Post Office, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1971.
  • Factotum, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1975.
  • Women, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1978.
  • Ham on Rye, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1982.
  • Horsemeat, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1982.
  • Hollywood, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1989.
  • Pulp, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1994.

SHORT STORIES

  • Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Essex House (North Hollywood, CA), 1969, 2nd edition, 1973.
  • Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 1972, abridged edition published as Life and Death in the Charity Ward, London Magazine Editions (London, England), 1974, selections edited by Gail Ghiarello published as Tales of Ordinary Madness and The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, and Other Stories, two volumes, City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 1983.
  • South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1973.
  • Bring Me Your Love, illustrated by R. Crumb, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1983.
  • Hot Water Music, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1983.
  • There's No Business, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1984.

OTHER

  • Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Mimeo Press (Bensenville, IL), 1966.
  • All the Assholes in the World and Mine, Open Skull Press (Bensenville, IL), 1966.
  • A Bukowski Sampler, edited by Douglas Blazek, Quixote Press, 1969.
  • (Compiler, with Neeli Cherry and Paul Vangelisti) Anthology of L.A. Poets, Laugh Literary, 1972.
  • Art, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1977.
  • What They Want, Neville, 1977.
  • We'll Take Them, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1978.
  • You Kissed Lilly, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1978.
  • Shakespeare Never Did This, City Lights, 1979.
  • (With Al Purdy) The Bukowski/Purdy Letters: A Decade of Dialogue, 1964-1974, edited by Seamus Cooney, Paget Press (Ontario), 1983.
  • Under the Influence: A Charles Bukowski Checklist, Water Row Press, 1984.
  • You Get so Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1986.
  • (Author of preface) Jack Micheline, River of Red Wine, Water Row Press, 1986.
  • Barfly (screenplay based on Bukowski's life), Cannon Group, 1987, published as The Movie "Barfly": An Original Screenplay by Charles Bukowski for a Film by Barbet Schroeder, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1987.
  • A Visitor Complains of My Disenfranchise, limited edition, Illuminati, 1987.
  • Bukowski at Bellevue (video cassette of poetry reading; broadcast on EZTV, West Hollywood, CA, 1988), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1988.
  • Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1990.
  • (Author of preface) John Fante, Ask the Dust, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1993.
  • Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader, edited by John Martin, Harper Collins, 1993.
  • Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (autobiography), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1994.
  • (Author of foreword) Steve Richmond, Hitler Painted Roses, Sun Dog Press, 1994.
  • Confession of a Coward, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1995.
  • (Editor) Seamus Cooney Living on Luck: Selected Letters, 1960s-1970s, Volume 2, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1995.
  • Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1996.
  • (With Fernada Pivano) Charles Bukowski: Laughing with the Gods (interview), Sun Dog Press (Northville, MI), 2000.
  • Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967, edited by Steven Moore, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 2001.
  • Reach for the Sun Vol. 3, Ecco (New York, NY), 2002.
  • The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship, Ecco (New York, NY), 2002.

Also author of the short story "The Copulating Mermaids of Venice, California." Work represented in anthologies, including Penguin Modern Poets 13, 1969, Six Poets, 1979, and Notes from the Underground, edited by John Bryan. Also author of a one-hour documentary film, produced by KCET public television, Los Angeles. A collection of Bukowski's papers is housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara.