Recent content by Lucinda

There isn't even a Barnes and Noble in my town. There's a Books-A-Million and a Walden books...... I went to the Guerilla Poetics Projcect website and really liked it. The broadsides were wonderful, the whole idea of it is wonderful.....as soon as I have the 25 bucks to join I'm going to...

Thanks for the recommendations. I haven't heard of any of them, but then, that's really no surprise. It's gotten so bad, as far as books, that when I walk into my local chain bookstore, I feel kind of sick. The titles, the cover art - all geared toward selling the damn thing.

I agree that I need to look deeper to find interesting stuff to read. I heard about the Hyde book from this thread. I was surfing around, reading the forums, and the thread title "The Next Bukowski" grabbed me. So I ordered the book, thinking, "this is going to be yet another dreadful...

I have absolutely NOTHING to gain by "shilling" the Hyde chapbook, as you so charmingly put it. As far as "introducing" myself, and letting everyone know how much I admire Charles Bukowski, visiting a thread such as this speaks for itself, doesn't it? I SINCERELY thought the Hyde book was...

The Next Bukowski? I just read the new Justin Hyde chapbook and I think it's very, very good. I'm not sure I understand all the "He is the new Bukowski!" hoopla, mostly because, while it's obvious his work owes ALOT to Bukowski, Hyde's own voice is in there too. It's quite rare, to see...