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美國骯髒現實主義代表作家查理‧布考斯基以詩探討各種形式的真實之愛
「文學界的永恆之作！」─《泰晤士報》
「布考斯基的詩帶領每一個人走向真實人生，即使是天使都有最人性的一面。」─李歐納•柯恩
「美國文學界最偉大的詩人！」─尚‧惹內
擅長描寫美國低下階層生活的知名詩人查理‧布考斯基是個情緒複雜及多變的男人，曾有書評描述他是一個「充滿無限熱情的瘋子」。在這本關於愛的詩選集，他精準描繪人類各種複雜的愛戀、情慾與慾望。他眼中的愛交織著強硬與溫柔、敏感及堅忍不拔，大膽揭露關於愛的真相，有的愛自私、有的自戀、有的愛很混亂、有的神秘，有的則很悲傷，儘管愛的形式變化萬千，愛仍帶給人性最真實的樂趣與救贖自我的偉大力量。布考斯基非常擅長以詩描繪愛，有的內容玩味十足，有的則和時間一樣稍縱即逝，而這些詩篇宛如一片最真實的鏡子，徹底反射布考斯基的哀傷與脆弱的性格。
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.