On Love

<p>A companion to <em>On Writing</em> and <em>On Cats</em>: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable on a subject that hits home with all of us.</p><p>Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions someone an editor once called a passionate madman. In <em>On Love</em> we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love lust and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle sensitive and gritty Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism its randomness its mystery and its misery and ultimately its true joyfulness endurance and redemptive power.</p><p>Bukowski is brilliant on love--often amusing sometimes playful and fleetingly sweet. <em>On Love</em> offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter his lover his friends or his work he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty and his own fragile place in it. My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough he writes as the same cat crouches.</p><p>Brutally honest flecked with humor and pathos <em>On Love</em> reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.</p>