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"He lots his head full of coal and gemstones shoot out of his finger tips. Just what a technique. The mole genius has still left us with another digest. It's a full house - read 'em and weep." - Tom Waits Born from Bukowski's columns, the LA underground press of the 1960s, Bukowski described his early on alter ego, Hank Chinaski, as a self-described dirty old man who sight his defeatist attitude about himself along with his clearness to see laughter and holiness in others. Addictive and instructive tuning in, Bukowski delivers the mankind and intelligence of all the unseen. Filled with his typical obsessions - gender, booze, gaming - Notes features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, and his tortured, violent human relationships. "People come to my door - too many of these really - and knock to inform me Notes of your Dirty Old Man converts them on. A bum off the street earns a gypsy and his partner and we speak...drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She needs me to stop drinking beer and eat well. I listen to from a madman who phone calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Avenue in Hollywood and needs to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I could help you. I used to be always a psychiatrist.' I send him away...." "Bukowski writes such as a latter-day Celine, a smart fool talking right from the gut about the futility and beauty of life...." (Web publishers Regular) OBIE champion Will Patton (Remember the Titans, The Good Better half, Armageddon) recreates Bukowski in his visceral best, along with every eye-popping character in his life, each adversary, lover, and stranger in a lost city. More about the writer: Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known modern freelance writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany and increased in Los Angeles, where he resided for 50 years. He printed his first history in 1944, when he was 24, and commenced writing poetry at age 35. He passed on in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at age 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.
