"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.
From the horse track to the flophouse, these are dispatches from the edge.
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