Charles Bukowski was a hard-lived poet who could have cared less about his image and more about his cigarettes and alcohol. He was an underground writer who focused his ideas on the innate corruption within urban American society. His work was derived from his personal experiences, emotions, imagination, and intense upbringing. He was known as a writer and poet of truth. His raw and controversial honesty set him apart from many other writers and poets. Charles Bukowskis background of raw controversy, pure honesty, and a brutal lifestyle is reflected in his poetry through an equally raw and controversial demeanor.

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach,Germany on august 16, 1920. He moved from Andernach at age 2 with his mother and father, Katharina and Heinrich Bukowski, to Los Angeles. He had a very stern father who used severe and unreasonable discipline. Bukowski was not the most attractive person in his adolescence. He was frequently bullied and isolated from his female counterparts. He started drinking at an early age; being served his first glass of wine at age 13 from his father's wine cellar. He thought the substance was “magic.” …show more content…
His aspirations were towards the field of writing. He began to travel and write but was not initially successful. He lost hope for a while and gave up on everything in hi life. He traveled around the United States drinking and smoking excessively and almost to his demise. After his self degrading rampage he began writing again. He wrote about his hard life and the things he observed around him in the city of Los Angeles. One of his most successful works of poetry, Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail is based off a corrupt and “desolate, abandoned world.” John William Corrington, a writer for northwest reviews, describes Bukowski as “a crisp hard