Recent content by wayne f burke

ROOMINGHOUSE MADRIGALS is my least favorite Buk title. I feel the ghost of Hemingway over many of these poems--maybe it even wrote a few--the few containing bulls, senoritas, and war. According to Jules Smith--ART, SURVIVAL, AND SO FORTH, these poems, revived from earlier Buk zine publications...

I don't think the first 6 posthumous collections suffer any serious diminution, though some of the work is "sketchy"--simply not up to Buk's previous standards; less body to them--more skeleton showing (THE NIGHT TORN MAD WITH FOOTSTEPS, 2001, takes, like, 200 pages before it hits it's...

the first 3 to 4 posthumous collections are strong works--around SLOUCHING TOWARD NIRVANA, 2005,more skeleton than flesh begins to show. COME ON IN, 2006, is a disaster. It was an unconscionable act for John Martin to have made Bukowski sound like Rod McCuen, and a crime for him to make Buk...