Miranda Lambert's "Bluebird" was inspired by a poem, but the three songwriters spun their song to come to a very different conclusion. The song from Wildcard is a song of hope and optimism, while ...

Bukowski’s chatty free verse (and fiction) about disappointment, drunkenness, racetracks, flophouses, lust, sexual failure, poverty and late-life success amassed an enormous following by the time of ...