Love Is a Dog from Hell

Love Is a Dog from Hell

2002 • 312 pages

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A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.


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June 24, 2022

He is a “peep-freak” and says it himself- i dont need to read poems about a man jerking off to women at bus stops- i did anyway? who even cares about bukowski? ive decided i dont.

February 3, 2018

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