{"product_id":"the-continual-condition-poems-9780061771217","title":"The Continual Condition: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Leonard Cohen, songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguably 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Continual Condition \u003c\/em\u003eis 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 in \u003cem\u003eThe Continual Condition, \u003c\/em\u003ea godsend for admirers of his previous collections \u003cem\u003eSlouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eLove is a Dog From Hell, \u003c\/em\u003eas well as his novels\u003cem\u003e Factotum, Ham on Rye, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Pulp.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 - \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":50726045876498,"sku":"9780061771217","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d4485b90-7763-49b0-84ff-ec28a93fc5df.jpg?v=1734852284","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-continual-condition-poems-9780061771217","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}