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Well you've certainly proved your point there - with the results of this thread, thats for sure! :) My take: Bukowski's style comes from his intellectual strength. He was damn intelligent, and this allowed him to to harness an enormous amount of simmering anger, vulnerable sensitivity and...

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Victoria? or maybe Pan? Have you tried Hamsun's Mysteries? Its angry enough. Why not: Tired Men (or was it Weary Men?) by Arne Garborg. Better than most of what Hamsun wrote, in my opinion.

Welcome to the monkey house puke! Don't be afraid to bring up old posts. I find it harder and harder to keep up with everythng new and the backlog keeps growing.:rolleyes:

What poem is that? He has so many about the old brute. After watching BIT the other day I've been browsing poems in run with the hunted (1993) and came across the poem "my old man" where Buk treats his father with with an impressive, almost forgiving(!), amount of insight. Part of it goes like...

Was that Dullaghan? I was sure it was JM. Oh well, watched it "real" late... Another interesting detail I noticed. In a scene inside the old Volks, the interviewer comments on the Iron Cross hanging from the car mirror. Buk doesn't seem to know its an Iron Cross. This same cross turns up as a...

I just saw BIT for the first time last night and reacted the same way to Martin's take on this poem. I've always read it this way: When all the pretense of "trying" to be spiritual, of "trying" to be a poet, is dropped, an honest, natural, strong form appears. This poem is a cousin of his...

Well wadayaknow... Over at IMDB, reading reviews of Factotum (they ether love it or loath it) I found the following tidbit: "Oddly, the movie was preceded by a trailer for "Barfly," apparently soon to be rereleased under the aegis of Francis Ford Cappola -- the colors were awful, the picture...

I liked this film a lot and will definitely watch it again. The musical side was toned down though, maybe thats what I liked about it (and what fans disliked?). Didn't Dylan himself co-write the script? Including all those foreign-language versions of his songs was also, uh, surprising. A...

I totally agree MJP. Keep up the good work. This forum is a wonder, thanks to you! :) PS: and if everything indeed is connected to "poltics", then the best way of discussing it is by "showing not telling", if you catch my drift. Isn't that what the Buk did anyhow? Yeah.

I hear she also has hairy armpits...:rolleyes:

Try Betting on the Muse. It has both short stories & poems spanning his whole career.

Just saw this Dylan-movie, the other night, and was struck by many similarities to things Buk wrote. Example: "I'm more impressed by a crack in the cement than I am by any human being." Also the animal caretaker's musings on how all animals are more real than any human, reminds me of the scene...

After the prose had gone? Did it go? Or were the novels just a meal ticket to fame and a steady incom... In my opinion the poems have always outranked the prose...

Buk also wanted to combine elements from the poem and the short story. He invented (or reinvented) a new genre in able to do this. Why should the line breaks in a short story always be at the right margin? Why shouldn't a short story be written in the same form as a poem? Why can't a poem's...

How about a graph showing traffic on the site since it opened?:D

I liked the following line from this review: "[...]delivers much of his dialogue with the hushed deliberation of a man who spends a lot of time in his head, which makes sense, given the company he generally keeps." Never thought of it this way before, but it kind of ... makes sense...

Check out the following quote from Factotum: After losing several typewriters to pawnbrokers I simply gave up the idea of owning one. I printed out my stories by hand and sent them out that way. I hand-printed them with a pen. I got to a be a very fast hand-printer. It got so that I could...

How about the term "high yellow". Is that special or old? I always associated it with "tall blonds" or some such, but just looked it up in the Urban Dictionary and realize that I've been wrong all these years... ;)

How about a sneak preview MJP? Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Bing Theater 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Screens: 1 Ticket Prices: Adult: $9.00 | Senior: $6.00 | Child: $0.00 Factotum (R) - 1 hr 34 mins Sneak Preview | No Passes | Drama Mon., 8/14: 7:30pm...

Maybe Buk drank Moxie as a kid: "By the time of the First World War, Moxie had become the best-selling soda in the nation." Read more here: http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/2001/nov/backpage.html Thirsty for more? Try this...

Nice discussion on this word. Just shows how much information/history can be packed into a word. And Buk was very aware of this. I associate moxie with the word mojo, and sort of always attributed it to black slang (if that is the correct term). Most of the workers at the LA post office were...

MJP: How can I get a listing of the poems in this chapbook from the database? I seem to only get up poems from the 1993 Harper Collins book...

Wouldn't this be a good idea for a new thread? Buk's most cynical poem? How about "the genius of the crowd" for a starter? -->http://plagiarist.com/poetry/4508/

:D Thanks for the chuckle Rekrab. I second the motion. My most beat up copy of a Buk book is a hardcover of Women I found for a dollar in the local library's sale bin (NOT stolen!). Actually this was my first Buk book, if I remember correctly.