{"product_id":"on-love","title":"On Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA companion to \u003ci\u003eOn Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Cats\u003c\/i\u003e: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a \"passionate madman.\" In \u003ci\u003eOn Love\u003c\/i\u003e, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBukowski is brilliant on love--often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. \u003ci\u003eOn Love\u003c\/i\u003e offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. \"My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough,\" he writes, \"as the same cat crouches.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, \u003ci\u003eOn Love\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44458387701897,"sku":"9780062420732","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/f96169e75581af7d600f1b3b18562b9036726eeb.jpg?v=1757072552","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/on-love","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}