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Cult writer throughout Europe, Charles Bukowski used poetry to describe the depravity of urban life and portray the most oppressed classes of American society. A prolific author and icon of dirty realism, he combined emotion and imagination with direct language replete with violent and sexual imagery. Transgressors, his poems are a reflection of his intense personality, the result of an existence lived to the limit. Narrator and poet, his texts are almost always autobiographical - starring himself or his alter ego, Henry Chinasky - and deal with the wilder side of life with aggressive and gritty language.