In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of
love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic
and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems
collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its
mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance and
redemptive power.Whether writing about his daughter, his lover, or his
work, Bukowski is fiercely honest and reflective, using love as a prism to
look at the world and to view his own vulnerable place in it.Memorably
moving and, at times, hilarious, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most
candid and affecting.