Larry Gorlitz (11/27/2008 9:33:00 PM)
Why do we need to have the everyday described to us? It's boring. If anything it's poetry that should be the escapism. There literally is nothing poetic about this. His language here is not used for its aesthetic or evocative qualities past its apparent meaning. It could have been written as a paragraph. Clearly the ramblings of a drunken fool.
Maybe I'm being harsh on the guy. |
Just Jes (4/30/2008 7:42:00 PM)
<- Does not agree with Ryan.
Thats like saying you have to be able to count Banyon Trees home to understand Hemmingway, who was also quite intese, and also at ime dry as salt
I get Bukowski and I'm a saint when it comes to drink and the common Alchie.
He's just a realist... Perhaps a drunk but not for me to judge on mend. The cats got style in a way that those who wrk at it never quit tee of on. |
Ryan Rabe (1/25/2008 2:47:00 PM)
I think you have to be a true alcoholic to understand the intensity of this. |
Brian Heller (11/4/2007 1:15:00 AM)
Larry:
I'd have to argue that. There is much that needs to be described in the minute, in the every day. Do we only look at the bold and outstanding? Is that truly what we live? Hardly; we live in a world composed of the every day, and we are constantly desensitized by bold themes and ideas of grandeur. I could blame television for that, but it's really our own faults. Instead of taking the time to reflect on, or even admire, the things that go on in our life, we (as a typical whole) tend to be escapists, looking at vague outlines of things we want to exist instead. |
Larry Gorlitz (9/22/2007 8:23:00 PM)
I disagree...
I think what he's done here is... he's taken the mundane and just pressed the 'enter' key in the middle of sentences a few times and then called it poetry. Nothing really poetic about it at all really, other than the fact its called poetry. |
Walter Durk (9/19/2007 7:52:00 PM)
The beauty of his writing here is he takes the mundane and makes it fascinating.
'maybe I'd better write something tonight,
they all seem
to be closing in.'
He finds liberation through writing. |
Charles Bukowski
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