Recent content by Nev UK

Bees 5th My musing on this poem before researching it. Is he high and talking about his fifth line? unlikely as that's nothing like an 'ant in a breakfast nook full of...' Is talking about some American Sport (which 5th could be down as in american football or goal or something.) Bee being...

great poem. thanks to you and jason for bringing it up. I'll have to carry on reading a lot more Buk this year before I can submit my entry. for the year. An almost made up poem is a current favourite but ... i'm still reading.

I hear you Damon - i'm rekindling friendships for the sole purpose of getting them to buy me bukowski books for my birthday or for my kindle. I finally get why they called it Kindle.

Military precision Zobrak. i enjoyed your work. you must work in computers because you Nailed IT!

Wow...many thanks for this and the best knowledge in life is that which you didn't know that you needed to know. In the meantime, i've read a few more from Love is... Is the 6 foot goddess (p18) the same woman as texan (p39)?

Thanks Andreas, and although English is my first language - I can definitely say I'm in the same boat as you when it comes to mastering it's varied rules,tones,prose,grammer and actual words. For instance I learnt today that Pulchritudinous despite sounding like a manifestation of Evolution and...

Well - i'll start with Tonight as that's what i was reading when I had this threadia.. Tonight - for me shows a distancing between talent and agent. Editor calls them the girls and Buk differentiates between the girls and a woman. "The girls are gone already" he says to show that you can't...

Many many thanks all - it's almost daunting the reading i'll have to do but i'll try not to pressure myself to binge read this mans' work as it will just end up in me being a visceral mess of a fan. Thanks Philly Dave, Black Swan (the link was so useful), bukfan78, bospress.net (i will get...

I'm Nev - a newbie here and to Bukowski. My frst book im reading of his are a set of poems from 1974 -1977 - Love is a Dog from Hell. i didnt know anything aboutthe guy until i picked up this book in a bookstore in East London and i read a few poems in the shop and i had to buy them. if anyone...