Charles Bukowski Famous Poems
Charles Bukowski, the American poet, short-story writer, and novelist, was born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, Jr. in Andernach, Germany on August 1920. He was the son of Henry Bukowski, a US soldier who was part of the post-World War I occupation force, and Katharina Fett, a German woman. His father, his wife and young “Henry Charles” returned to the United States in 1922, settling in Los Angeles, California, the setting of much of “Hank” Bukowski’s oeuvre. With Raymond Chandler, Bukowski is the great chronicler of the City of Angels, and after John Steinbeck and Robinson Jeffers, who influenced Bukowski’s poetry, he arguably is the most important and certainly one of the most influential writers produced by the Golden state.
