The Buk Shop

Chinaski made his debut in 1965's Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Bukowski's first book of prose

Although Charles Bukowski’s first two published works were short stories, by the late 1950s he had largely given up on prose and dove headfirst into poetry. If Bukowski’s goal was getting published, the changeup was a fastball with his poems appearing in over 150 publications between 1957 and 1965.