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Charles Bukowski is an iconic American writer who wrote and published an incredible number of collections of poems and short stories, as well as several novels during his lifetime. He was such a prolific author that even after his death, a book with new material is published almost every year: poems, short stories, essays, and correspondence.

The protagonist of the vast majority of Bukowski's texts is the writer Henry Chinaski, who works in low-paid jobs (from which he is constantly fired or quits himself), constantly eats and makes love;with women, goes to the racetrack to bet on horse races, hangs out in bars either alone or with his fellow losers (prostitutes, pimps, alcoholics and vagrants), returns home and writes incessantly while listening to classical music. Bukowski's poems are best appreciated not as individual verbal artefacts, but as continuous episodes of the story of his true adventures, like a comic book or TV series. The mixture of boastfulness and discontent aptly shows the timidity of Bukowski's poetry, which is at once man-hating and sociable, aggressively vulgar and mysteriously sensitive.