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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Name: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
ISBN: 9780876851913

Charles Bukowski

HarperCollins · Paperback · May 31, 2002

Reading lane: Erotica Anthologies

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women.

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Raw, spare poems where love and friction never stay politely separated.

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Authors: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: May 31, 2002
Format: Paperback
Theme: Erotica Anthologies · American Poetry
Reading lane: Erotica Anthologies

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