First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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I was down and out and burned out. Love was beating me down. Never heard of him. Saw the title. What else did I need? Bukowski mixes pure, raw sexual experiences and images with heartfelt love, adoration, and regret. He is one of the few authors in the world who can change your emotions from laughter, to disgust, to tears in only three poems. Read him. You must.
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So often people read bukowski and only see the excesses of his lifestyle. I read of celebreties mentioning him and they just don't seem to get it. This is one of the most beautiful and brutal books of poetry you could ever read. Enjoy the honesty. Enjoy the lack of pretense.
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Take off the rose-colored glasses...return your seats to their upright position...place your head between your knees and prepare for a crash landing. Don't get me wrong: this book is not a diatribe condemning love. We've all read and loved our Byron, but now it's time to step through the looking glass, children. Love may "walk in beauty like the night" but, "Love, Bukowski Style"...asks you to remember that "the night" isn't the best venue for clarity of vision. Bukowski speaks to that other side of love...vitriolic, soul-destroying, perverted, barbaric and insane. All, who have ever loved, will find the words for their feelings...the feelings for their lack of words...in Bukowski's auto-Eros-dissection. Why would I suggest you read this volume of poetry? Why would anyone want to subject themself to such unpleasantries? What kind of sadist am I, that I would ask you to deliberately subject yourself to the pain of love? To know love, is to know the pain of love. Yet for all the pain inherent in love, we seek love again and again. Nothing exercises our gifts of hope and faith more strenuously. Love may be a "dog from hell" to Bukowski, but he is still unable to disguise his want, his need and his hope for more love. Bukowski - alcoholic, misanthrope, barbarian, gutter rat - who writes of love and can still say..."It softens a man."
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First taste and liked it!
First dip into Bukowski, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will be digging deeper into his other works. A fine eye modern life.
Published 17 days ago by Andrew
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i love to buk
This book too me is pure heaven on a broken plate, the only way in which I can describe with how the buk man writes, is when your on a beach and you start eating a sandwich and... Read more
Published 23 months ago by brutal
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Bukowski goes straight for the jugular
Bukowski was the king of skid row poets. He was a drunk living in flophouses, working in factories, fighting, cursing etc. He wrote in a raw, hard hitting style. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2008 by Billy Ray Cyrus
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A broken tormented comforters collection....
Locked away in the bowels of a sweaty and soiled charity shop, where the government had placed me for a six month sentence... Read more
Published on 23 May 2001
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Another Awesome Piece from Buk
A hauntingly-wonderful collection of aging Bukowski. To know Buk is to love him. In all his forms.
Published on 26 April 1998
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Bukowski is a poet from hell
Bukowski's poetry is like his books : straight to your guts and to your heart. No concessions, of course, and that lirism so special from this strange man, one of the freest men... Read more
Published on 23 Dec 1997
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