He also seems to enjoy
"anonymously" commenting on things written about him:
(7) youdontstop says:
like the poems. when does the book come out?
Of course you like the poems, "Ananda." You wrote them. I assume many of the other comments there were also made by "Ananda," but I'm sure that one is. You know, since the signup email for
Tannbox here is youdontstop@...
This is definitely an elaborate hoax. Kudos to the college student(s) behind it!
That being said, I have to admit that I'm a bit disappointed that "Ananda Osel" hasn't come back here after his first successful blast of bukowski.net
gorilla self-promotion. I suppose he will eventually. Can anyone guess how that first response will read? I could make a reasonable and accurate guess, based on the others who have made the same mistake. But I would rather let the wild young Turk speak for himself. Like this:
"Many people are convinced that for poetry to be good it must be obscure. They want to keep poetry exclusive to a certain group; the dance of it makes them feel smart. You know, I don't subscribe to that nonsense; I don't want to look words up in a dictionary or dissect a complex metaphor just to understand what a writer is trying to convey."
Now why hasn't someone else taken that brave stance in the past, oh, 50 or 60 years?
Oh...they have? Thousands of them? Huh. And here I thought "Ananda Osel" was onto something new. Go figure.
Rock on, "Ananda Osel." The world needs more like you. Save us from the sea of obscure and complex metaphorical poetry that we are drowning in!
