i believe this is a pretty complete bibliography, but if there are any books you know of that i left off please let me know.

Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail (1960)
Longshot Pomes for Broke Players (1962)
Run with the Hunted (1962)
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963)
Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (1965)
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
The Genius of the Crowd (1966)
All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966)
The Curtains are Waving (1967)
At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window (1968)
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
Fire Station (1970)
Another Academy (1970)
Post Office (1971)
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)
Anthology of LA Poets (1972)
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972)
Reprinted in 1983 as:
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World and
Tales of Ordinary Madness
South of No North (1973)
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 (1974)
Factotum (1975)
Scarlet (1976)
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974-1977 (1977)
Women (1978)
You Kissed Lilly (1978)
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)
Shakespeare Never Did This (1979)
Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)
Ham on Rye (1982)
Bring Me Your Love (1983)
Hot Water Music (1983)
There's No Business (1984)
War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 (1984)
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)
The Movie: "Barfly" (1987)
A Visitor Complains of My Disenfranchise (1987)
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (1988)
Hollywood (1989)
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (1990)
People Poems (1991)
Bluebird (1991)
In the Shadow of the Rose (1991)
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
Three Poems (1992)
Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (1993)
Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993)
Pulp (1994)
Shakespeare Never Did This (augmented edition) (1995)
Living on Luck:Selected Letters 1960s-1970s, Volume 2 (1995)
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories (1996)
Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems (1997)
The Captain is Out to Lunch And the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998)
Reach for the Sun: Selected Letter 1978-1994, Volume 3 (1999)
what matters most is how well you walk through the fire. (2000)
Open All Night (2000)

Books about Buk

Hank: the Life of Charles Bukowski. Neeli Cherkovski (1991)
Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski. Russell Harrison (1994)
Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet. Gerald Locklin (1996)
Spinning Off Bukowski. Steve Richmond (1996)
The Charles Bukowski Flash, Second Coming Years. A.D. Winans (1996)
Bukowski: A Life. Neeli Cherkovski (1997)
The Buk Book. Jim Christy (1997)
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Primary Publications of Charles Bukowski. Aaron Krumhansl (1999)


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