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Open all night is a volume of poems by Charles Bukowski, one of America’s most celebrated contemporary writers of poetry and prose. Bukowski, born in Andernach, Germany, was raised in Los Angeles where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 and began writing poetry at the age of thirty‑five. It was after years of writing and living a turbulent life in San Pedro, California, that Bukowski produced this work before passing away on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy‑three.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Poetry/Contemporary Poetry
Authors: Charles Bukowski
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