{"product_id":"the-continual-condition-poems-paperback","title":"The Continual Condition: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Bukowski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Leonard Cohen, songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski remains a counter-culture icon more than a decade after his death. \u003cem\u003eThe Continual Condition \u003c\/em\u003eis a collection of never-before-published poems by the inimitable Bukowski--raw, tough, odes to alcohol, women, work, and despair by a rebel author equally adept at poetry and prose. Charles Bukowski lives on in \u003cem\u003eThe Continual Condition, \u003c\/em\u003ea godsend for admirers of his previous collections \u003cem\u003eSlouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eLove is a Dog From Hell, \u003c\/em\u003eas well as his novels\u003cem\u003e Factotum, Ham on Rye, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Pulp.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture luminary. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he has struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women in an authentic voice that is, like the work of the Beats, iconoclastic and even dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by his longtime publisher, John Martin, of Black Sparrow Press, and now in paperback, \u003cem\u003eThe Continual Condition\u003c\/em\u003e includes more ofthis legend's never-before-collected poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.94 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758726676768,"sku":"9780061771217","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f82ba492215782bfc6fca99cd3883ce7.webp?v=1780133805","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-continual-condition-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}