Principal Works
Notes of a Dirty Old Man 1969
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness 1972; abridged edition published as Life and Death in the Charity Ward, 1974
South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life 1973
Bring Me Your Love [illustrated by R. Crumb] 1983
Hot Water Music 1983
There's No Business 1984
Septuagenarian Stew 1990
Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail (poetry) 1959
Poems and Drawings (poetry) 1962
Run with the Hunted (poetry) 1962
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands: New and Selected Poems, 1955-1963 (poetry) 1963
Grip the Walls (poetry) 1964
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (poetry) 1965
Crucifix in a Deathhand: New Poems, 1963-1965 (poetry) 1965
The Genius of the Crowd (poetry) 1966
The Girls (poetry) 1966
Night's Work (poetry) 1966
True Story (poetry) 1966
The Curtains Are Waving (poetry) 1967
At Terror Street and Agony Way (poetry) 1968
Poems Written before Jumping out of an 8-Story Window (poetry) 1968
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills (poetry) 1969
If We Take … (poetry) 1969
Another Academy (poetry) 1970
Fire Station (poetry) 1970
Post Office (novel) 1971
Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems (poetry) 1972
Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck (poetry) 1972
While the Music Played (poetry) 1973
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems, 1955-1973 (poetry) 1974
Chilled Green (poetry) 1975
Factotum (novel) 1975
Weather Report (poetry) 1975
Scarlet (poetry) 1976
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977 (poetry) 1977
Maybe Tomorrow (poetry) 1977
Legs, Hips, and Behind (poetry) 1978
Women (novel) 1978
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (poetry) 1979
Dangling in the Tournefortia (poetry) 1981
Ham on Rye (novel) 1982
Horsemeat (novel) 1982
The Last Generation (poetry) 1982
The Bukowski/Purdy Letters: A Decade of Dialogue, 1964-1974 [with Al Purdy] (letters) 1983
Sparks (poetry) 1983
Barfly (novel) 1984
War All the Time: Poems, 1981-1984 (poetry) 1984
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966 (poetry) 1988
Hollywood (novel) 1989
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (poetry) 1992
Pulp (novel) 1994
Bone Palace Ballet (poetry) 1997
Open All Night (poetry) 2000
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