The Continual Condition: Poems

The Continual Condition: Poems

<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal>“The Walt Whitman of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:City></st1:place>.”</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal>—Joyce Carol Oates</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal>“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal>—Leonard Cohen, songwriter</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal>Arguably 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. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Continual Condition </span></em>is 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 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Continual Condition, </span></em>a godsend for admirers of his previous collections <em>Slouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned, </em>and <em>Love is a Dog From Hell, </em>as well as his novels<em> Factotum, Ham on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Rye</st1:City></st1:place>, </em>and<em> Pulp.</em></p>