Slouching Toward Nirvana

"Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and The Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther."-- "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter Los Angeles slums, bars, and more are featured in , the third of five books of unpublished poems from Charles Bukowski, considered by many to be America's most imitated and influential poet.