Charles Bukowski

Aaron Krumhansl lists 159 broadsides, chapbooks and books up until March 1999 so this list is only a selection of the more important titles.

Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail, Hearse Press, Eureka, Calif., 1960

Poems and Drawings, Epos, Crescent City, Florida, 1962

Longshot Poems for Broke Players, 7 Poets Press, New York, 1962

Run with the Hunted, Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, Chicago, 1962

It Catches My Heart in Its Hands, Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1963

Crucifix in a Deathhand, Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1965

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard, Literary Times-Cyfoeth Press, Chicago, 1965

Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With Beasts, Mimeo Press, Bensonville, Ill., 1965

The Genius of the Crowd, 7 Flowers Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1966

All the Assholes in the World and Mine, Open Skull Press, Bensonville, Ill., 1966

At Terror Street and Agony Way, Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1968

Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window, Poetry X/Change, Glendale, Calif., 1968

Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Essex House, North Hollywood, Calif., 1969

A Bukowski Sampler, Quixote Press, Madison, Wisc., 1969

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills, Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1969

Post Office, Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1971

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1972

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1972

Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems, KissKill Press, Los Angeles, 1972

South of No North, Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1973

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955–1973, Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1974

Factotum, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1975

Scarlet, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1976

Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974–1977, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1977

You Kissed Lily, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1978

Women, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1978

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1979

Shakespeare Never Did This, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1979

Dangling in the Tournefortia, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1981

Ham on Rye, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1982

Bring Me Your Love, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1983

Hot Water Music, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1983

The Bukowski/Purdy Letters, Paget Press, Sutton West and Santa Barbara, Calif

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1983

Tales of Ordinary Madness, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1983

There’s No Business, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1984

War All the Time: Poems 1981–1984, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1984

The Wedding, Brown Buddha Books, San Pedro, 1986

The Day It Snowed in L.A, Paget Press, Sutton West and Santa Barbara, Calif. 1986

You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1986

The Movie: ‘Barfly’, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1989

The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946–1966, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1988

Hollywood, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1989

Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1990

The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1992

Run with the Hunted, HarperCollins, New York, 1993

Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960–1970, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1993

Pulp, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1994

Living on Luck: Selected Letters 1960s–1970s (Volume 2), Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1995

Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1996

Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1997

The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1998

Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters 1978–1994 (Volume 3), Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1999

What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire: New Poems, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1999

Open All Night: New Poems, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 2000

Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960–1967, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 2001

The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 2001

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 2002

New Poems Book 1 Virgin, London, 2003

New Poems Book 2 Virgin, London, 2003

The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain, Ecco, New York, 2004

New Poems Book 3 Virgin, London, 2004

Calonne, David Stephen (ed), Charles Bukowski, Sunlight Here I Am, Interviews & Encounters, 1963–1993, Sun Dog, Northville, Michigan, 2003

Cherkovski, Neeli, Hank, the Life of Charles Bukowski, Random House, New York, 1991

Cherkovski, Neeli, Whitman’s Wild Children, Lapis, Venice, CA, 1998

Christy, Jim, The Buk Book, Musings on Charles Bukowski, ECW, Toronto, 1997

Dorbin, Sanford, A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1969

Freyermuth, Gundolf S, ‘That’s It’ a Final Visit with Charles Bukowski, Xlibris, privately published, np. 2000

Harrison, Russell, Against the American Dream, Essays on Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1998

Krumhansl, Aaron, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Primary Publications of Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1999

Leyland, Winston, The Gay Sunshine Interviews, Volume 1 (with Harold Norse interview). Gay Sunshine, San Francisco, 1978

Locklin, Gerald, Charles Bukowski, A Sure Bet, Water Row, Sudbury, Mass., 1996

Malone, Aubrey, The Hunchback of East Hollywood, a Biography of Charles Bukowski, Headpress/Critical Vision, Manchester, 2003

Morrow, Bradford and Seamus Cooney, A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press, 1966–1978, Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1981

Norse, Harold, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel. William Morrow, New York, 1989

Pivano, Fernanda, Charles Bukowski, Laughing with the Gods, an Interview, Sundog, Northville, Michigan, 2000

Smith, Jules, Art, Survival and So Forth: The Poetry of Charles Bukowski, Wrecking Ball, North Cave, Yorks, 2000

Sounes, Howard, Charles Bukowski, Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, Grove, New York, 1998

Sounes, Howard, Bukowski in Pictures, Canongate, Edinburgh, 2000

Weizman, Daniel (ed), Drinking with Bukowski, Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row, Thunder’s Mouth, New York, 2000

Where a second date is given in square brackets, this is the date of the original edition.

Banham, Reyner, Los Angeles, The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Allen Lane, Penguin Press, London, 1971

Brown, James, The L.A. Diaries, Bloomsbury, London, 2003

Bunker, Edward, No Beast So Fierce, No Exit, London, 1993 [1973]

Cain, James M, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Jonathan Cape, London, 1934

Cain, James M, Serenade, Jonathan Cape, London, 1938

Cain, James M, Mildred Pierce, Robert Hale, London, 1943

Cain, James M, Double Indemnity, Robert Hale, London, 1945

Cain, James M, The Butterfly, Robert Hale, London, 1949

Chandler, Raymond, The Big Sleep, Penguin, London, 1970 [1939]

Chandler, Raymond, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, London, 1949 [1940]

Cooper, Stephen, Full of Life; A Biography of John Fante, North Point, New York, 2000

Davis, Mike, City of Quartz, Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Verso, London, 1990

Didion, Joan, The White Album, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979

Ellroy, James, The Big Nowhere, Mysterious, London, 1989

Ellroy, James, My Dark Places, Alfred Knopf, New York City, 1996

Fante, John, Ask The Dust, Panther, London, 1985 [1939]

Fante, John, Dreams From Bunker Hill, Panther, London, 1985

Fisher, Carrie, Postcards from the Edge, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987

Hiney, Tom, Raymond Chandler, A Biography. Chatto & Windus, London, 1977

Huxley, Aldous, After Many a Summer, Chatto & Windus, London, 1939

Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage, New York City, 1961

Lambert, Gavin, Inside Daisy Clover, Viking, New York, 1963

Layman, Richard, Shadow Man, the Life of Dashiell Hammett, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1981

Lurie, Alison, The Nowhere City, William Heinemann, London, 1965

Maynard, John Arthur, Venice West, the Beat Generation in Southern California, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1991

Miles, Barry, Frank Zappa, Grove, New York, 2004

Miller, Henry, The Air Conditioned Nightmare, Secker & Warburg, London, 1947

Murphet, Julian, Literature and Race in Los Angeles, Cambridge University Press, 2001

Pepper, Laurie and Art, Straight Life, Schirmer, New York, 1979

Polito, Robert, Savage Art, a Biography of Jim Thompson, Vintage, New York, 1996

Pynchon, Thomas, The Crying of Lot 49, J.B. Lippincott, New York, 1965

Rayner, Richard, Los Angeles Without a Map, Secker & Warburg, London 1988

Rechy, John, City of Night, Grove, New York, 1963

Rechy, John, The Sexual Outlaw, Grove, New York, 1977

Sitton, Tom and William Deverell (eds), Metropolis in The Making, Los Angeles in the 20s. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001

Spillane, Mickey, I, The Jury, EP Dutton, NY, 1947

Spillane, Mickey, My Gun is Quick, EP Dutton, NY, 1950

Spillane, Mickey, Vengeance Is Mine! EP Dutton, NY, 1950

Thompson, Jim, A Hell of a Woman, Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1984

Ward, Elizabeth and Alain Silver, Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, Overlook, Woodstock, NY, 1987

West, Nathanael, Collected Works, Secker & Warburg, London, 1957

Willett, Ralph, The Naked City, Urban Crime Fiction in the USA, Manchester University Press, 1996

Williams, John, Into the Badlands, A Journey Through the American Dream, Paladin, London, 1991

Allen, Donald M (ed), The New American Poetry 1945–1960, Grove, New York, 1960

Benjamin, Walter, The Arcades Project, Belknap, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1999

Brian, Denis, The True Gen, an Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him, Grove, New York, 1988

Crosby, Caresse, The Passionate Years, Ecco, New York, 1979 [1953]

Daumal, Rene, A Night of Serious Drinking, Shambala, Boulder, 1979 [1938]

Frank, Robert, The Americans, Aperture, New York, 1978

Glessing, Robert J, The Underground Press In America, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1970

Hamill, Pete, A Drinking Life, Little Brown, Boston, 1994

Hamsun, Knut, The Wanderer, Souvenir, London 1975

Hamsun, Knut, Hunger, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1996

Hunt, Tim (ed), The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University, Stanford, 1991

Jeffers, Robinson, Selected Poems, Carcanet, London, 1987

Lynn, Kenneth, Hemingway, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987

Newlove, Donald, Those Drinking Days, Myself and Other Writers, Junction, London, 1981

Polsky, Ned, Hustlers, Beats and Others, Pelican, Harmondsworth, 1971

Tester, Keith (ed), The Flâneur, Routledge, London, 1994