'Slouching Toward Nirvana' with Bukowski
'Slouching Toward Nirvana' is a new collection of poems by rebel writer Charles Bukowski.
Hard-drinking, outlaw poet Charles Bukowski wrote about living in slums, working dead-end jobs and haunting bars in Los Angeles. John Martin, the long-time editor of Bukowski — who died in 1994 — discusses a new book of the writer's poems, Slouching Toward Nirvana.
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