When Abel Debritto first started researching and writing about Charles Bukowski, he knew that the prolific underground poet, short story writer and novelist, who had written thousands of poems in ...

After Bukowski’s death in 1994, Mallory wrote tributes to him for the Daily Pilot and Orange County Register and printed a limited-edition broadsheet of one of his poems.

Bukowski’s poetry is often powerful, emerging with explosive force. An admirer once described his work as “the spoken word nailed to paper.” But he could also be reflective, almost mournful.

When he died, Bukowski left a vast amount of unpublished material with his editor John Martin, in California. “John had a filing cabinet full of poems, a few stories and he was a prolific letter ...

When Charles Bukowski died at 73, he left behind more than 45 volumes of poetry and prose, an oeuvre that to this day makes up the most entertaining affront ever delivered to modern letters.

Social media users are again debating the merits of Charles Bukowski, the late Los Angeles-based writer known for his poetry describing a coarse, often boorish version of American masculinity ...