{"product_id":"slouching-toward-nirvana-new-poems-isbn-9780060577032","title":"Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and The Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.”—\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles slums, bars, and more are featured in \u003cem\u003eSlouching Toward Nirvana\u003c\/em\u003e, the third of five books of unpublished poems from Charles Bukowski, considered by many to be America’s most imitated and influential poet.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eCharles Bukowski is one of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 Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, \u003cstrong\u003ePulp\u003c\/strong\u003e (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring his lifetime Bukowski published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including the novels \u003cstrong\u003ePost Office\u003c\/strong\u003e (1971), \u003cstrong\u003eFactotum\u003c\/strong\u003e (1975), \u003cstrong\u003eWomen\u003c\/strong\u003e (1978), \u003cstrong\u003eHam on Rye\u003c\/strong\u003e (1982), and \u003cstrong\u003eHollywood\u003c\/strong\u003e (1989). Among his most recent books are the posthumous editions of \u003cstrong\u003eWhat Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire: New Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e (1999), \u003cstrong\u003eOpen All Night: New Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e (2000), \u003cstrong\u003eThe Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e (2001), \u003cstrong\u003eSifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way: New Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e (2003), and \u003cstrong\u003eThe Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll of his books have now been published in translation in more than a dozen languages, and his worldwide popularity remains undiminished. In the years to come Ecco will publish additional volumes of previously uncollected poetry and prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889445564645,"sku":"NP9780060577032","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060577032.jpg?v=1730231279","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/slouching-toward-nirvana-new-poems-isbn-9780060577032","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}