The Continual Condition: Poems – A Posthumous Rebel Icon's Raw Collection on Alcohol, Women, Work, and Despair

€œThe Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.€

€"Joyce Carol Oates

 

€œHe brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.€

€"Leonard Cohen, songwriter

 

Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of the previous half-century, Charles Bukowski remains a counter-culture icon more than a decade after his death. The Continual Condition is a collection of never-before-published poems by the inimitable Bukowski€"raw, tough, odes to alcohol, women, work, and despair by a rebel author equally adept at poetry and prose. Charles Bukowski lives on in The Continual Condition, a godsend for admirers of his previous collections Slouching Toward Nirvana, The Pleasures of the Damned, and Love is a Dog From Hell, as well as his novels Factotum, Ham on Rye, and Pulp.