charles bukowski
«his style, which exhibits a strong sense of immediacy and a refusal to embrace standard formal structure, has earned him a place in the hearts of beat generation readers, and the contributors to the alt.books.beatgeneration newsgroup. he was a prolific (it isn't known how much he had written; much of it was sent off to publishers long-hand and never seen again), free-formed, humorous, and painfully honest writer. his topics included hang-overs, the shit stains on his underwear, classical music, horse-racing and whores. he was at home with the people of the streets, the skid row bums, the hustlers, the transient life style. his language is the poetry of the streets viewed from the honesty of a hang-over.»read more @ literary kicks.
