Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

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Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.

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But he continued to write and his novels, poems and essays and in his later years he was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government.

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With each year, and even student grouping, we find ourselves selecting novels, short stories, poems or even reading and writing skills to meet the specific needs of our students.

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