Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. Bukowski grounds the work in the cramped rooming houses, racetracks, and late-night bars of Los Angeles.

The collection pairs unsparing elegies for a dead partner with plainspoken accounts of skid-row survival, hospital wards, and betti...