She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eurydike no longer needs any love? He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two.

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

The book is bound in the publisher's original cloth with pictorial boards and is in excellent condition.

First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. It is about lessons of love, resistance, loneliness, isolation, and how lessons leave bruises, then sometimes break.

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. Number 3 of 5 presentation copies, marked as such on the rear colophon; signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original painting by him bound in. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.