Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an influential American poet and novelist. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles. He is often mentioned as an influence by contemporary authors, and his style is frequently imitated. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print. He is often remembered as "The Poet Laureate of Skid Row."

 
Bibliography

* Flower, Fist and Bestial Wall (1960)
* Longshot Pomes for Broke Players (1962)
* Run with the Hunted (1962)
* It Catches My Heart in Its Hand (1963)
* Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
* Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (1965)
* Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
* All the Assholes in the World and Mine(1966)
* The Curtains Are Waving... (1967)
* Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window (1968)
* At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
* A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
* Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
* Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
* Fire Station (1970)
* Post Office (1971)
* Another Academy (1970)
* Anthology of LA Poets (1972)
* Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck (1972)
* Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972)
* South of No North (1973)
* Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 (1974)
* Factotum (1975)
* Scarlet (1976)
* Love is a Dog from Hell (1977)
* Women (1978)
* You Kissed Lilly (1978)
* Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)
* Shakespeare Never Did This (1979)



* Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)
* Ham on Rye (1982)
* Hot Water Music (1983)
* Bring Me Your Love (1983)
* There's No Business (1984)
* War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 (1984)
* You Get So Alone at Times It Just Makes Sense (1986)
* The Movie Barfly (1987)
* A Visitor Complains of My Disenfranchise (1987)
* Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (1988)
* Hollywood (1989)
* Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems (1990)
* People Poems (1991)
* Bluebird (1991)
* In the Shadow of the Rose (1991)
* Three Poems (1992)
* Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
* Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (1993)
* Screams from the Balcony: Selected Leters 1960-1970 (1993)
* Pulp (1994)
* Shakespeare Never Did This (Augmented Edition) (1995)
* Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories (1996)
* The Laughing Heart (1996)
* Bone Palace Ballet (1997)
* A New War (1997)
* The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998) 
* To Lean Back Into It (1998)
* Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters 1978-1994, Volume 3 (1999)
* The Singer (1999)
* What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (1999)
* Open All Night (2000)
* Popcorn In The Dark (2000)
* Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967 (2001)
* The night torn mad with footsteps (2001)
* Pink Silks (2001)
* The Simple Truth (2002)
* Sifting Through The Madness for the Word, The Line, The Way: New Poems(2003)
*  As Buddha smiles (2004)
* The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems (2004)
* Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
* Come On In!: New Poems (2006)
* The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems (2007)
* The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (2007)
* The Last Straw: DVD of Reading (2008)
* There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot In Here: DVD of Reading (2008)