Love is a Dog From Hell

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He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. Honestly, I'm not really sure why I picked this book up - somewhere hidden away in the back of my mind was the voice telling me I wouldn't like it. Number 66 of a limited 75 copies signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original painting by him bound in. Most people that hear of bukowski know that he is known for being a "drunken romantic," so that title is one of the only that would fit their assumption. You either love it or hate it, and after reading “Love is a Dog from Hell,” I’ve found myself in the latter camp.Love Is a Dog from Hell (first published 1977) is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies.

This was a bitter period, as I had been in that post-heartbreak stage where the world seems ugly and, like Bukowski, just wanted to revel in my bitterness for awhile.Bukowski is that drunk asshole always diving to the bottom of a glass, keeping shallow relationships and never trusting women. They view the world and societal constructs as threatening, as something holding them down, and turn to nihilism to deal with that. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Also like a setting sun, people like this aren’t something you can hang around long or you will get hurt (or loose your vision if you stare at the sun too long!

This particular collection couldn’t be more fitting to find these notes written years earlier (I have a few other books where we both wrote notes to each other, such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra which we were both reading at the same time while he was our ‘guy on couch’ at an old apartment), both with Bukowski’s discussions of loneliness, but as it was indicative of my current state at that time. A book 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. Maybe it's just me, but when I see people in relationships, i can't help but get the feeling that these people are in it for themselves.These are poems that make you think and although the writings were obviously personal to him, i think you can relate in ways. Once you’ve had your fill though, the time comes to move forward, as this sort of ugliness can only lead to more ugliness and eventually it will fill you and drag you down with it. I also enjoyed moments where he circled lines such as ‘ oh brothers, we are the sickest and lowest of the breed’, which summed up that summer we all spent together in our tiny, dirty Ypsilanti apartment.