On Love -- Charles Bukowski

<p>A companion to <em>On Writing</em> and <em>On Cats</em>: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.</p><p>Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." In <em>On Love</em>, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.</p><p>Bukowski is brilliant on love--often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. <em>On Love</em> offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. "My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough," he writes, "as the same cat crouches."</p><p>Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, <em>On Love</em> reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Charles Bukowski<br><b>Publisher:</b> Ecco Press<br><b>Published:</b> 01/03/2017<br><b>Pages:</b> 224<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Wei