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Principal Works

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Poetry

Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail 1960

Longshot Pomes for Broke Players 1962

Run with the Hunted 1962

Poems and Drawings 1962

It Catches My Heart in its Hands: New and Selected Poems, 1955–1963 1963

Grip the Walls 1964

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard 1965

Crucifix in a Deathhand: New Poems, 1963–1965 1965

Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts 1965

The Genius of the Crowd 1966

True Story 1966

On Going Out to Get the Mail 1966

To Kiss the Worms Goodnight 1966

The Girls 1966

All the Assholes in the World and Mine 1966

The Flower Lover 1966

Night's Work 1966

2 by Bukowski 1967

The Curtains are Waving 1967

At Terror Street and Agony Way 1968

Poems Written before Jumping out of an 8-Story Window 1968

If We Take…. 1969

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills 1969

Another Academy 1970

Fire Station 1970

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck 1972

Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems 1973

While the Music Played 1973

Love Poems to Marina 1973

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955–1973 1974

Africa, Paris, Greece 1975

Weather Report 1975

Winter 1975

Tough Company 1976

Scarlet 1976

Maybe Tomorrow 1977

Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974–1977 1977

Art 1977

What They Want 1977

We'll Take Them 1978

Legs, Hips, and Behind 1979

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit 1979

A Love Poem 1979

Dangling in the Tournefortia 1981

The Last Generation 1982

Sparks 1983

One for the Old Boy 1984

War All the Time: Poems 1981–1984 1984

Under the Influence 1984

Alone in a Time of Armies 1985

You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense 1986

Gold in Your Eye 1986

The Day in Snowed in L.A. 1986

Luck 1987

The Movie Critics 1988

Beauti-ful & Other Long Poems 1988

The Rooming House Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946–1966 1988

Septuagenarian Stew 1990

In the Morning and At Night and In Between 1991

In the Shadow of the Rose 1991

The Last Night of the Earth Poems 1992

Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader 1993

Confession of a Coward 1995

Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories 1996

Other Major Works

"Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip" (short story) 1944

A Bukowski Sampler (short stories, poetry, essays) 1969

Notes of a Dirty Old Man (short stories) 1969

Post Office (novel) 1971

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (short stories) 1972

2 Letters from Charles Bukowski (letters) 1972

South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life (short stories) 1973

Life and Death in the Charity Ward (short stories) 1974

Factorum (novel) 1975

Women (novel) 1978

You Kissed Lilly (short stories) 1978

Ham on Rye (novel) 1982

Horsemeat (novel) 1982

Bring Me Your Love (short stories) 1983

Hot Water Music (short stories) 1983

The Bukowski/Purdy Letters: A Decade of Dialogue 1964–1974 [with Al Purdy] (letters) 1983

Barfly (novel) 1984

There's No Business (short stories) 1984

The Movie "BarFly" (screenplay) 1987

Hollywood (novel) 1989

Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960's-1970's (letters) 1993

Pulp 1994

Living on Luck: Selected Letters 1960 's-1970 's, Volume 2 (letters) 1995

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