Against the American dream: essays on Charles Bukowski

Poetry and class

The individual and the social in Bukowski's poetry of the '80s

Poetry and the working class

Metonymy

Excursus: Brecht

Work, refusal of work and the job in Post Office and Factotum

Excursus: Miller

Politics, class and the plebeian tradition

Sex, women and irony

Connections: Fante ; Hamsun ; Mahler

Excursus: Gleason

The fascination of the (extra)ordinary: the short stories of Charles Bukowski.