The Continual Condition

<p>The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.</p><p>--Joyce Carol Oates</p> <p> </p></p><p>He brought everybody down to earth even the angels.</p><p>--Leonard Cohen songwriter</p> <p> </p></p><p>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. <em>The Continual Condition </em>is 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 <em>The Continual Condition </em>a godsend for admirers of his previous collections <em>Slouching Toward Nirvana The Pleasures of the Damned </em>and <em>Love is a Dog From Hell </em>as well as his novels<em> Factotum Ham on Rye </em>and<em> Pulp.</em></p>