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“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”-Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”-Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski’s poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.







A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Ten Pre-Raphaelite Poems
Steep Tea
The Moon Before Morning
The Art of Scratching
Book of Mercy
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
Short Days, Long Shadows
Over the Moon