Love Is A Dog From Hell

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book 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. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." 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."there is a loneliness in this world so greatthat you can see it in the slow movement ofthe hands of a clock."This is Bukowski at his most contradictory and compelling.
Raw and Honest Poetry: Bukowski holds nothing back, chronicling the selfishness, misery, and occasional, redemptive joy of human connection. Beat Poetry: Capturing the voice of a "passionate madman, " these poems reject convention for a lyrical, street-level view of life and love. Love and Loneliness: An unflinching look at the failures of love, exploring the profound solitude that can exist even between two people.
Gritty Realism: From dive bars to cheap rooms, experience the underbelly of American life through the eyes of its most uncompromising poet.