{"product_id":"on-love-charles-bukowski-9780062420732","title":"On Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eA companion to \u003cem\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOn Cats\u003c\/em\u003e: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a \"passionate madman.\" In \u003cem\u003eOn Love\u003c\/em\u003e, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBukowski is brilliant on love--often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. \u003cem\u003eOn Love\u003c\/em\u003e offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. \"My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough,\" he writes, \"as the same cat crouches.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, \u003cem\u003eOn Love\u003c\/em\u003e reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Bukowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0062420739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062420732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Charles Bukowski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051433324799,"sku":"9780062420732","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2f83065c-4b14-4b2e-8cee-f50e3bbcfd28.jpg?v=1685013070","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-love-charles-bukowski-9780062420732","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}