Hello. If anyone here wants to please explain/describe the writing/basic philosophy of Charles Bukowski for me, I'd appreciate it. Thanx.
Oh my god I just did a google search and without clicking on any of the results discovered his birthday is tomorrow!
Please tell me about Bukowski
Okay, so the moon's in Leo, too. Why am I not surprised? You astrological skeptics would be surprised at the amount of things you do and think according to what sign the moon's in, without even knowing it. I have this friend I'm no longer very close to and sure enough he contacts me once a month when the moon is in the sign of my birth...then he forgets me, then contacts me again when the moon returns there. It's ridiculous. I'm fed up with him, but that's another story.
So I see Bukowski is in your top reads, Sloth. I'll check out what you wrote.
So I see Bukowski is in your top reads, Sloth. I'll check out what you wrote.
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mccutcheon
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cheers to you big nose
His short stories are better than his novels but Women is good. B's prose is simple and he is the kind a writer young guys around 20 get into when they have their first hangover. But I keep going back to him because he is so readable and entertaining. Qualities most don't like, but I do. He was also a poet and a postman.
here's one Bukowski poem that i really liked.
AS CRAZY AS I EVER WAS
drunk and writing poems
at 3 a.m.
what counts now
is one more
tight pussy
before the light
tilts out
drunk and writing poems
at 3:15 a.m.
some people tell me that I'm
famous.
what am I doing alone
drunk and writing poems at
3:18 a.m.?
I'm as crazy as I ever was
they don't understand
that I haven't stopped hanging out of 4th floor
windows by my heels-
I still do
right now
sitting here
writing this down
I am hanging by my heels
floors up:
68, 72, 101,
the feeling is the
same:
relentless
unheroic and
necessary
sitting here
drunk and writing poems
at 3:24 a.m.
drunk and writing poems
at 3 a.m.
what counts now
is one more
tight pussy
before the light
tilts out
drunk and writing poems
at 3:15 a.m.
some people tell me that I'm
famous.
what am I doing alone
drunk and writing poems at
3:18 a.m.?
I'm as crazy as I ever was
they don't understand
that I haven't stopped hanging out of 4th floor
windows by my heels-
I still do
right now
sitting here
writing this down
I am hanging by my heels
floors up:
68, 72, 101,
the feeling is the
same:
relentless
unheroic and
necessary
sitting here
drunk and writing poems
at 3:24 a.m.
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EVOL LOVE
The Sonic Youth song Madonna, Sean and Me is not about that. But the Sonic Youth song Star Power is very good and I wish was about me. EVOL is just LOVE backwards. Not profound but lost. I like that.
This album is why I got the word 'Evil' wrong in Miss Crankston's 7th grade Spelling Bee. At the time I was a senoir in high school so what was I doing there in the first place, you might ask. It's a good question.
This album is why I got the word 'Evil' wrong in Miss Crankston's 7th grade Spelling Bee. At the time I was a senoir in high school so what was I doing there in the first place, you might ask. It's a good question.
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It has been noted on many occasions that Old bucko could have done with an editor. He wrote too much or he wrote exactly the right amount and published too much of it. It seems that he is doomed to be forever co-opted by lesser talents who have got his lifestyle down pat while seemingly drawing heavily on the stuff that should have been fed to the dog.
Spare us from the poetic musings of Sean Penn.
By any chance do any of the pax ever listen to the writer's almanac spots on NPR? If you ever got the chance to hear Garrison Keillor do the Buckowski poem about the crabs in the bucket and leaving the post office, you'll no doubt love it as much as I did.
Spare us from the poetic musings of Sean Penn.
By any chance do any of the pax ever listen to the writer's almanac spots on NPR? If you ever got the chance to hear Garrison Keillor do the Buckowski poem about the crabs in the bucket and leaving the post office, you'll no doubt love it as much as I did.
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take what you will from Chuck. the problem is that a lot of people take the idea that is they write about their drunkeness and fornications and insanity they will be just as loved as bukowski is. but there can only be one.
I say his poetry is truly his best stuff. and what i take from bukowski is writing poetry that makes your point once. doesn't lose itself in its own vocabulary, doesn't drag on like some soiled wedding train. it's a firmness he had, a punch across the pages that left nothing more to say.
If he was anything, he was honest.
we can all aspire to be honest.
I say his poetry is truly his best stuff. and what i take from bukowski is writing poetry that makes your point once. doesn't lose itself in its own vocabulary, doesn't drag on like some soiled wedding train. it's a firmness he had, a punch across the pages that left nothing more to say.
If he was anything, he was honest.
we can all aspire to be honest.
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sara
Good point, BF Jake.
The only Bukowski I ever read was in this great collection of short stories, The Literary Lover. It had his "The Most Beautiful (or Woman) In Town". It's a really sad story, but very well done. I'm not even sure if that's the title, as you should expect, I read it in college.
I wanted to post this under literature, the Graham Greene thread, but I can't post under that thread for whatever reason, who knows?! After reading the posts, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and read Graham Greene's very short story "The " last night before bed -- it's very good.
The only Bukowski I ever read was in this great collection of short stories, The Literary Lover. It had his "The Most Beautiful (or Woman) In Town". It's a really sad story, but very well done. I'm not even sure if that's the title, as you should expect, I read it in college.
I wanted to post this under literature, the Graham Greene thread, but I can't post under that thread for whatever reason, who knows?! After reading the posts, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and read Graham Greene's very short story "The " last night before bed -- it's very good.
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sara
mark,
if you're still interested in Bukowski -- I read a great little poem about him on ten club's site today -- it made me laugh.
The person who wrote it has some other interesting poems on that bb as well.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.p ... ge=2&pp=15
if you're still interested in Bukowski -- I read a great little poem about him on ten club's site today -- it made me laugh.
The person who wrote it has some other interesting poems on that bb as well.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.p ... ge=2&pp=15
