<p>In the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture luminary. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he has struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women in an authentic voice that is, like the work of the Beats, iconoclastic and even dangerous. </p> <p> Edited by his longtime publisher, John Martin, of Black Sparrow Press, and now in paperback, <i>The Continual Condition</i> includes more of this legend&#146;s never-before-collected poems.</p>