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Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM
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I do agree with this comment that came with one online signature:
Brandon Martinez said 22 hours ago (unverified)
There has never been a greater American author.
I suspect that Mr. Martinez should read a few more books. But you've gotta admit, a Charles Bukowski stamp would be pretty funny. Post Office is one of his better books, after all.
1
Not talking to people who worship this guy is a good way to filter annoying people out of your life.
3
How about a stamp... celebrating stamps? I think that would be a fantastic stamp series.
Perhaps a stamp celebrating stamps being portrayed on stamps?
Perhaps a stamp celebrating stamps being portrayed on stamps?
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"I suspect that Mr. Martinez should read a few more books." Gawd, that made me laugh really loudly. Truer words were never written.
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#1 nailed it.
In the arts, there are very few truly fail-safe tests. But the Bukowski Test of Poetic Sensibility is one of them.
If you think he is a great poet, or even a good one, or even a passable one, then a humane education that could have been better spent on a mentally disabled child was completely fucking pissed away on you. It just did not take. It didn't do what it was supposed to do.
He is to poetry what Ayn Rand is to philosophy. Rand's genius lay in her ability to window-dress and market, to self-obsessed college sophomores, the idea that the very thing they were most inclined to do -- be self-obsessed -- was an exercise both in intellectual rigor and moral purity. Similarly, Bukowski' sole appeal lies in his fraudulent ability to convince credulous boobs that breaking sophomoric ramblings into lines represents some sort of high culture.
I have never met a Bukowski fan that had good taste in a goddamn thing.
In the arts, there are very few truly fail-safe tests. But the Bukowski Test of Poetic Sensibility is one of them.
If you think he is a great poet, or even a good one, or even a passable one, then a humane education that could have been better spent on a mentally disabled child was completely fucking pissed away on you. It just did not take. It didn't do what it was supposed to do.
He is to poetry what Ayn Rand is to philosophy. Rand's genius lay in her ability to window-dress and market, to self-obsessed college sophomores, the idea that the very thing they were most inclined to do -- be self-obsessed -- was an exercise both in intellectual rigor and moral purity. Similarly, Bukowski' sole appeal lies in his fraudulent ability to convince credulous boobs that breaking sophomoric ramblings into lines represents some sort of high culture.
I have never met a Bukowski fan that had good taste in a goddamn thing.
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1) I've read more than my fair share of authors.
2) You're all completely missing the point. This is a man who literally lived the American dream. The beauty of his work lies not in flowery prose and certainly not in complex poetry, but in the simplicity of a man overcoming his surroundings. Read about him. Maybe start from the end of his life and work your way backwards. I recommend "Women." I've never read a more profound ending to a story, one that can only be reached by falling so low.
3) Don't judge me or the other 118 signatures when your page ads feature Happy Hours and Stranger Personals.
2) You're all completely missing the point. This is a man who literally lived the American dream. The beauty of his work lies not in flowery prose and certainly not in complex poetry, but in the simplicity of a man overcoming his surroundings. Read about him. Maybe start from the end of his life and work your way backwards. I recommend "Women." I've never read a more profound ending to a story, one that can only be reached by falling so low.
3) Don't judge me or the other 118 signatures when your page ads feature Happy Hours and Stranger Personals.
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Thank god we have anonymous blog commenters like "Quintus Slide" to tell us the difference between good literature and bad. What would we do without you, "Quintus Slide"?? Please say you'll never go away....
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THE DAYS RUN AWAY LIKE WILD HORSES OVER THE HILLS and BETTING ON THE MUSE are both very good collections of poetry. I like the Nuyorican poets too...anybody wanna talk shit on them? I love intellectual discussions with anonymous cowards, lol.
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You could probably make your own Bukowski stamp on Zazzle. How about a picture of him sitting on the toilet or something?
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I recently wrote on my blog about Mr. Bukowski. I agree with 1 & 8 & josh bomb: Bukowski is for dirtbags, misogynists and alcoholics, because Bukowski personified all three.
And yes, 9, that would a f'ugly stamp, indeed.
And yes, 9, that would a f'ugly stamp, indeed.
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I recently wrote on my blog about Mr. Bukowski.
http://themomentofchange.blogspot.com/20…
I agree with 1 & 8 & josh bomb: Bukowski is for dirtbags, misogynists and alcoholics, because Bukowski personified all three.
And yes, 9, that would a f'ugly stamp, indeed.
http://themomentofchange.blogspot.com/20…
I agree with 1 & 8 & josh bomb: Bukowski is for dirtbags, misogynists and alcoholics, because Bukowski personified all three.
And yes, 9, that would a f'ugly stamp, indeed.
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