Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center. Look out L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poets, Beats, and bad-boy= comedians. Bukowski was running the show long before you. He's the guy you either love to love or love to hate. Big-mouthed, bold and brassy as always, Bukowski lets loose in this eclectic collection of letters, poems and drawings. An excellent addition to his poetry, Bukowski's letters depict a male heart that looks like it's encased in black leather. Look again; it's red-blooded, warm and blatantly honest. Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center. Charles Bukowski  is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel,  Pulp . Abel Debritto , a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of  Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground , and the editor of the Bukowski collections  On Writing ,  On Cats , and  On Love .