Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 ? March 9, 1994), was a Los Angeles poet and novelist. Bukowski is sometimes associated with the Beat Generation writers because of his informal style and non-conformist literary attitude, though he did not identify himself as a Beat. Bukowski closely associated his works with his home city of Los Angeles and wrote over fifty books before his death on March 9, 1994.

Trivia

• The band Hot Water Music has taken its name from the book of the same name which Bukowski wrote in 1983.
• The band Thursday named one of its albums War All The Time.
• The band Modest Mouse has used both Bukowski's name and alleged personality on the 8th track of their newest album, Good News For People Who Love Bad News.
• English rock band The Dogs D'Amour recorded a track entitled Bullet Proof Poet (for Charles Bukowski) on their 1991 acoustic mini-album A Graveyard Of Empty Bottles.
• The grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed used two spoken word samples by Bukowski in the song "Hungry Homeless Handjob"
• The funk rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers refer to Charles Bukowski, "pick up my book, I read Bukowski," in the song Mellowship Slinky in B-Major from the album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
• Omaha based songwriter Tim Kasher, who fronts the bands Cursive and The Good Life, wrote of Bukowski on The Good Life's newest album. "I was reading Fante at the time, I had Bukowski on the mind" refers to the link between Fante's and Bukowski's work.