The poem “Beer” by Charles Bukowski is animated in this swirling, burbling, and beautiful video.
Charles Bukowski travels to San Francisco, gives a reading, and discusses his life and work in this wild documentary.
Bukowski’s longtime girlfriend shares some of her poetry about the man she knew, loved, and hated.
Bukowski writes about John Fante, one of his favorite writers, whom he helped get his work back into print before he died.
The Charles Bukowski poem, from the collection “What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire.”
“Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore; Rimbaud running off to Africa to look for gold and finding an incurable case of syphilis; Beethoven gone deaf…”
“once we were young at this machine…drinking smoking typing it was a most splendid miraculous time still is…”
“I can’t have it and you can’t have it and we won’t get it so don’t bet on it or even think about it just get out of bed each morning…”
