{"product_id":"come-on-in-9780060577063","title":"Come on In!","description":"\u003cp\u003eanother comeback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclimbing back up out of the ooze, out of\u003cbr\u003ethe thick black tar, \u003cbr\u003erising up again, a modern\u003cbr\u003eLazarus.\u003cbr\u003eyou're amazed at your good\u003cbr\u003efortune.\u003cbr\u003esomehow you've had more\u003cbr\u003ethan your share of second\u003cbr\u003echances.\u003cbr\u003ehell, accept it.\u003cbr\u003ewhat you have, you have.\u003cbr\u003eyou walk and look in the bathroom\u003cbr\u003emirror\u003cbr\u003eat an idiot's smile. \u003cbr\u003eyou know your luck.\u003cbr\u003esome go down and never climb back up.\u003cbr\u003esomething is being kind to you.\u003cbr\u003eyou turn from the mirror and walk into the\u003cbr\u003eworld.\u003cbr\u003eyou find a chair, sit down, light a cigar.\u003cbr\u003eback from a thousand wars\u003cbr\u003eyou look out from an open door into the silent\u003cbr\u003enight.\u003cbr\u003eSibelius plays on the radio.\u003cbr\u003enothing has been lost or destroyed.\u003cbr\u003eyou blow smoke into the night, \u003cbr\u003etug at your right\u003cbr\u003eear.\u003cbr\u003ebaby, right now, you've got it\u003cbr\u003eall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBukowski, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Bukowski\u003c\/strong\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003ePulp\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbel Debritto\u003c\/strong\u003e, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCharles Bukowski, King of the Underground\u003c\/em\u003e, and the editor of the Bukowski collections \u003cem\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn Cats\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOn Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50913960198418,"sku":"9780060577063","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27cc6344-83a4-444b-8b9c-a6b282ec980b.jpg?v=1738802011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/come-on-in-9780060577063","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}