Reader Response: Overview

Being your typical angsty teenager, I whole heartedly appreciate the poetry of Charles Bukowski.  It is dark with just the right amount of bright moments.  It is passionate and desperate and lonely, just like being a teenager.  I also love that his poetry is full of profanities because it makes it raw and vulnerable like something you might overhear in the street.  In what matters most is how well you walk through the fire 'Chinaski' gives into his demons at times, allowing himself to bathe in the loneliness.  Other times 'Chinaski' fights his demons heroically and with flair.  What could be better?