num_pages: 224
description: A companion to On Writing and On Cats: 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.Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions someone an editor once called a passionate madman. In On Love 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 loveits selfishness and its narcissism its randomness its mystery and its misery and ultimately its true joyfulness endurance and redemptive power.Bukowski is brilliant on loveoften amusing sometimes playful and fleetingly sweet. On Love 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.Brutally honest flecked with humor and pathos On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.
language: None
title: On Love
publisher: Ecco