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Love is a Dog From Hell Paperback – May 31, 2002

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A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

A book 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. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” 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.

"there is a loneliness in this world so great

that you can see it in the slow movement of

the hands of a clock."

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312 pages
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English
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Ecco
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May 31, 2002
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5.88 x 0.78 x 8.94 inches
ISBN-10

0876853629
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978-0876853627
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First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

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Charles 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 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, Pulp.

Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco; Ecco ed. edition (May 31, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0876853629
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0876853627
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.88 x 0.78 x 8.94 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #14,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #13 in Death, Grief & Loss Poetry (Books)
- #29 in Love Poems
- #5,464 in Genre Literature & Fiction

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Charles 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, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived 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, Pulp (1994).

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Westley

No love poems here

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2012

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Aside from watching the excellent movie adaptation of his largely autobiographical novel, "Factotum," I knew little about Bukowski before reading this collection of poetry. "Love Is a Dog From Hell" collects his works from the mid-1970s (1974-1977). Bukowski was in his fifties and fairly successful as a writer by this point. The poems often center on his problematic relationships with women, whom he usually treats as sex objects. His views on women are clueless and offensive but capture what so many men (especially of his generation) seem to think. His greatest insights are usually in some of his crudest and most off-putting poems. Other poems concern his writing process, what he sees in his seedy L.A. neighborhood, and his drinking.

The humor in his poems sometimes stems from a "I can't believe he wrote that" sense of disbelief, but much of the time it comes from seeing such a flawed man bare his soul and write so fearlessly. He's a depressive sad sack who drives away women with his outrageous behavior ("I had resigned myself to dying alone in a small room"). Yes, some of his work is no more than simple potty humor, but at times, his lines are quite wise (e.g., "there is always one woman to save you from another").

I strongly suggest that the prospective reader sample a few of his poems before purchasing a full collection. Also, I found it most effective to read in relatively small dribs and drabs. Too many of the poems in one sitting was a bit stultifying.

This review is of the Kindle version. The text is formatted well and was very easy to read; I did not find any obvious errors. On the Kindle Fire, the Table of Contents includes a link to each poem, so you can immediately skip to your favorites.

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Matthew Zilic

Love Bukowski

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024

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I am happy with the purchase... although, I wish the listing stated every poem included.
I was looking for a particular poem from that time range of this book... and a Google search stated it was in this book. Unfortunately it is not.
Not a huge issue as I love bukowski...
But, if the listing included the poem titles, I'd have purchased a different book. Now I have to order a different book to get that poem.

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2023

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If you like poetry and are dealing with stress from love, this book will validate your heartache. Bukowski is a genuis.

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PoppyGabby12

(Somewhat) Delightfully Dark and Cynical

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023

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Bukowski’s poetry is dark and cynical in a way that I’ve yet to find elsewhere. I greatly enjoy his manner of writing and some of his poems have really sat with me. That being said, I have to be in a certain mood to read his work as some poems are extremely misogynistic and have certainly skewed my views of people/the world.

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quade

Bukowski paints his world.

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023

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It's not often that I read a book in it's entirety on the same day that I receive it. But Bukowski's collection slowly painted his world before me and I couldn't stop until it was over.