The Pleasures of the Damned

<p><strong>The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.--Joyce Carol Oates bestselling author</strong></p><p><strong>He brought everybody down to earth even the angels.--Leonard Cohen songwriter</strong></p><p><strong>The Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski America's most influential poet.</strong></p><p>To his legions of fans Charles Bukowski was--and remains--a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature a stubborn outsider to the poetry world he struck a chord with generations of readers writing raw tough poetry about booze work and women that spoke to his fans as real and like the work of the Beats even dangerous.</p><p><em>The Pleasures of the Damned </em>is a selection of the best works of Bukowski's later years edited by John Martin of Black Sparrow Press including the last of his new never-before-published poems.</p>