The Pleasures of the Damned

All of his books have now been published in translation in more than a dozen languages and his worldwide popularity remains undiminished. In the years to come Ecco will publish additional volumes of previously uncollected poetry and letters.

more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including the novels Post Office (1971), Ham on Rye (1982), and Hollywood (1989).

He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five.

He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. H

CHARLES BUKOWSKI is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet.

riots, roars of caged lions,

you want to blow my book sales in

Europe?

I say, stay in there, I’m not going

to let anybody see

you.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I’m too tough for him,