Charles Bukowski - American author

As a bit of fun, inspired by my ongoing research, and the piece quoted elsewhere from Esquire, I thought I'd start a thread documenting the various descriptions of Buk to be found in critiques, reviews, bios, etc.

Okay first cab off the rank must be the cliched:

Poet laureate of skid row

then:

Hard-bitten bard of the Los Angeles demimonde
American literature's dirty old man
Poet of douchebags