Dimensions
144 x 220 x 24mm
Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers on a subject that touches all of our lives.
'My love is a hummingbird
sitting that quiet moment
on the bough
as the same cat
crouches'
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance and redemptive power.
Whether writing about his daughter, his lover, or his work, Bukowski is fiercely honest and reflective, using love as a prism to look at the world and to view his own vulnerable place in it.
Memorably moving and, at times, hilarious, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.
