The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."-Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."-Leonard Cohen, songwriter

The Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski, America's most influential and imitated American poet.

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 wi...