Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

Charles Bukowski

Mar 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty.

Ratings and reviews

I keep trying to read book after book of Bukowski's work, but I will never see what all the fuss is about. He really is simply an egocentric sociopath who threw so many things against a wall that a few were statistically destined to stick. I recognize that Bukowski did wonders for the literary world, but I chalk it up less to talent and breadth of his insights, and more to the fact that his writing style is impressive. I recommend this book to Bukowski fans who are willing to look passed all the misogyny and tastelessness, but to anyone else, I recommend only reading it of you truly want to see what all the fuss is about and read the inane ramblings of a dirty minded man.

About the author

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.