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Finished Robert Frost this morning. On to Charles Bukowski. If you are new to the blog, I read a little poetry every morning as part of my morning routine, which includes reading some magazine articles and at least a chapter of scripture. The Bukowski was given to me by Charlie and Molly when I did their wedding. I'm just now starting it because at the time I was reading Czeslow Milosz collected works....
Enjoy. All The Poems Of Charles Bukowski . These Things these things that we support most well have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence; our circle and our candle of light being small, so small we cannot bear it, we heave out with Idea and lose the Center: all wax without the wick, and we see names that once meant wisdom, like signs into...
William S. Burroughs’ The Little Engine That Shot Its Wife Green Eggs And Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski A Clockwork Orange: My First Book Of Colors And Time by Anthony Burgess Are You There, God? It’s Me, Esther by Sylvia Plath Justine And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by the Marquis De Sade Franz Kafka’s Metamorphs #1: Insectified Henry Miller’s The Cheerful Little Tugboat Crosses...
Ben Pleasants in 3:AM magazine: Charles Bukowski loved the idea of poetry wars. Even at the lowest level of mimeo magazines, when he was co-editing Laugh Literary & Man the Humping Guns with Neeli Cherry, he jumped in guns blazing...
Raymond Chandler. Charles Bukowski. Walter Mosley. Meh. Los Angeles’ true literary legacy is the zombie/vampire/supervirus/apocalypse genre, which novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson kick-started with his 1954 novel I Am Legend. Matheson’s story, set in 1970’s Los Angeles, follows the trials and tribulations of the seemingly sole survivor of a plague that transforms humans into vampires. The...
Cain Burdeau paints a fascinating portrait of Gypsy Lou Webb, now 91 but once a fixture in the Quarter. She sold paintings to fuel her husband's publishing company, which discovered none other than Charles Bukowski. I'm not even going to excerpt this one — Go read it!
The Associated Press profiles Gypsy Lou Webb, the woman who "gave the world Charles Bukowski": Sixty-nine years ago, Louise Madaio, a raven beauty of Neapolitan heritage, eloped with a convict writer and rich-kid bad boy, Jon Edgar Webb. They never...
By Ben Pleasants. Charles Bukowski loved the idea of poetry wars. Even at the lowest level of mimeo magazines, when he was co-editing Laugh Literary & Man the Humping Guns with Neeli Cherry , he jumped in guns blazing ready to take on the world. “Poetry,” he always said, “is a poor country without any boundaries. It’s open to all kinds of fools. All the poet has is his shitty little poem and his point...
I just came across the poem, " So You Want to be a Writer? " by Charles Bukowski - I love the urgency of this language: "unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it." I also love how the poem ends: "whe n it is truly time, a nd i f you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you...
... Kay Ryan: Poet laureate 'outsider' followed traditional path . I think Bob's point is sound. Kay's an offbeat choice, but if she were truly an outsider she wouldn't have been chosen. Charles Bukowski would have been a real outsider choice. But the essential point is that Kay is a very good poet and deserves the honor. See also "I thought I might take it upon my self" and Ryan's metaphor, are deceptive...
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