22:1 Autumn 1970

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

All Right, So Camus Had to Give Speeches before the Academies and Get His Ass Killed in a Car Wreck

Charles Bukowski’s poetry and fiction often reflected on the dark underbelly of society, where sex, drinking, and violence provoked the author’s existential meditations. This poem appeared in the Autumn 1970 issue of Chicago Review; as in another poem Bukowski would publish in the Winter 1972 issue, Camus’s death is a particular preoccupation for the poet. Bukowski’s work, though prolific, would not be widely known until the 1980s.

[DN, 1996]

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