Charles Bukowski

Righteous Jammer · May 2005

Anyone a fan of his work?? Here's one of my personal favorites:

Who needs it?

see this poem?
it was
written without drinking.
I dont need to drink
to write.
I can write without
drinking.
my wife says I can.
I say that maybe I can.
I'm not drinking
and I'm writing.
see this poem?
it was
written without drinking.
who needs a drink now?

probably the reader.

jboelhow · May 2005

I'm a fan. I have a number of his books. I know some people hate him, or think he doesn't write poetry. I understand their point. I like his bluntness, and the way some of the stuff reads.

FinsburyParkCarrots · May 2005

There are writers such as Sam Beckett and Patrick Kavanagh who wanted to write poetry without "style". I suppose they wanted to write poetry that captured some essence of the unspeakable without using flowery language to do that. Buk tried to do that too and in some ways he was so good at it he didn't come across as poetic. I'm trying to think of an analogy here to explain what I mean: That if you're iconoclastic enough, it doesn't matter how skilled you are, people are going to be deaf to the intrinsic quality of your work. Oh, I know. Yes. Cecil Taylor's jazz piano is so fast and uses such small intervals of notes that it sounds, to a lot of people, like a rag sweeping a keyboard.

(Note to self:This is good wine.)

jboelhow · May 2005

I got you, FinsburyParkCarrots. Sometimes people do things so unique, that doesn't really fit a box, a label, that they than say it is nothing.

Buru · May 2005

I love Buk
i love how his words flow, as if with no thought, or effortlessly
simple, straightforward, very much everyday life many can relate to
And he managed to create a personal style, which I happen to like a lot!

intodeep · May 2005

good Stuff!

I'm a fan. I have not read that before I liked that one! thanks for sharing.

ThreeSadSemesters · May 2005

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Buru · May 2005

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Don't think this would happen!

EvilToasterElf · May 2005

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

There are writers such as Sam Beckett and Patrick Kavanagh who wanted to write poetry without "style". I suppose they wanted to write poetry that captured some essence of the unspeakable without using flowery language to do that. Buk tried to do that too and in some ways he was so good at it he didn't come across as poetic. I'm trying to think of an analogy here to explain what I mean: That if you're iconoclastic enough, it doesn't matter how skilled you are, people are going to be deaf to the intrinsic quality of your work. Oh, I know. Yes. Cecil Taylor's jazz piano is so fast and uses such small intervals of notes that it sounds, to a lot of people, like a rag sweeping a keyboard.

(Note to self:This is good wine.)

At this moment for some reason I'm thinking there's never been a movie narrated by a drunk, I think it would be a fun experiment

Charles Bukowski

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