nervas
more crickets than friends
Ok I'm hoping to get some feedback on a question that rattles my brain often. Whenever and no matter how good or bad I think it is....Whenever I see a poem written in the Bukowski style...
what i
mean,
is when a poem is
written in
some sense or
fashion similiar
to what I'm typing
right
now...
is written, I just can't help but think MAN, it's just a Bukowski rip off. I may be totally ignorant and naive to think this. I've been reading Bukowski for about 16 years and there is no question he's my favorite author. I just hate discounting EVERYTHING I read like the above thinking the person figured..."Well if that guy Bukowski did it this way, ANYONE CAN DO IT." I read in other forums where users have talked about how that statement is NOT TRUE, and I totally agree. I just wonder how many others, were writing this way prior to Bukowski?
I'd really like to read and appreciate other authors who write in a similar fashion, but honestly after 16 years cannot get over the fact that it seems to much of a rip-off?
I guess I do like a few Green Day songs even after absolutely idolizing the Ramones for the past 25 years, so maybe there's hope?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
what i
mean,
is when a poem is
written in
some sense or
fashion similiar
to what I'm typing
right
now...
is written, I just can't help but think MAN, it's just a Bukowski rip off. I may be totally ignorant and naive to think this. I've been reading Bukowski for about 16 years and there is no question he's my favorite author. I just hate discounting EVERYTHING I read like the above thinking the person figured..."Well if that guy Bukowski did it this way, ANYONE CAN DO IT." I read in other forums where users have talked about how that statement is NOT TRUE, and I totally agree. I just wonder how many others, were writing this way prior to Bukowski?
I'd really like to read and appreciate other authors who write in a similar fashion, but honestly after 16 years cannot get over the fact that it seems to much of a rip-off?
I guess I do like a few Green Day songs even after absolutely idolizing the Ramones for the past 25 years, so maybe there's hope?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.