{"product_id":"play-the-piano-9780876854372","title":"Play the Piano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.\"--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.\"--Leonard Cohen, songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlay 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo apologies. No punches pulled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eConfessional Poetry: \u003c\/b\u003e Unflinching poems that stare into the mirror at a life of cheap rooms, hard drinking, and harder women.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGritty Realism: \u003c\/b\u003e From the slaughterhouse to the racetrack bar, Bukowski finds the ugly, brutal truth of the everyday.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTender and Vicious: \u003c\/b\u003e A world of bitter arguments and drunken nights, where moments of unexpected love and romance still manage to break through.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Singular Voice: \u003c\/b\u003e The iconic, plain-spoken style that made Charles Bukowski one of the most imitated poets in American literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Bukowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 5.76w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780876854372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBukowski, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Bukowski\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, \u003cem\u003ePulp\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbel Debritto\u003c\/strong\u003e, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCharles Bukowski, King of the Underground\u003c\/em\u003e, and the editor of the Bukowski collections \u003cem\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn Cats\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOn Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Charles Bukowski \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48230689341597,"sku":"9780876854372","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3415dc3e-458c-401d-844c-37a01a6e459a.jpg?v=1778577223","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/play-the-piano-9780876854372","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}