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[sunflowersutra]

It seems I've rushed in here without properly introducing myself. My apologies for this, I am not usually this rude.

The name is Kat, twenty-something girl from Slovenia and I've stumbled across Bukowski only recently (as recently as only a few days ago, actually), in Slovene translation. His poetry intrigued me so I went searching for the originals and my mad google-fu skills brought me here. So, well, here I am.

Hope you'll forgive my initial indiscretion and happy holidays to everyone.

Kat

 

[Joe Batters]

Welcome!


Happy Holidays to you as well. What's Slovenia like?

 

[Bukfan]

Welcome aboard, Kat! Are there many Buk books translated into Slovenian?

 

[Lolita Twist]

The name is Kat, twenty-something girl from Slovenia and I've stumbled across Bukowski only recently (as recently as only a few days ago, actually), in Slovene translation. His poetry intrigued me so I went searching for the originals and my mad google-fu skills brought me here. So, well, here I am.

Buk would love you!

Welcome ;)

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Yeah, Lolita is right, and welcome. Are you a poet?

 

[bospress.net]

Hi,
Welcome. It was not rude at all. It is just always nice to see a new face and know a bit more about new members. We have people from all over Europe, Australia, North & South America. I'm not sure, anyone still from Asia here? I do not think that we have any African members either.

Bill

 

[HenryChinaski]

welcome, welcome, welcome

 

[sunflowersutra]

Thank you for the welcome, everyone!

To answer your question, MadBull, Slovenia is currently somewhat snowed in. Nothing major, but we did have a nice white Christmas. Otherwise, it's small and very green, very rural and the people like to drink a lot (not sure if the rural part and the drinking part are connected, however). I wish I was kidding. :p

And Bukfan,there have been some translations, but way not enough. Translated so far are:

- Factotum
- Ham on Rye
- Women
- Pulp
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man

And two poetry collections, one entitled Poems and the other is a selection of his poems from various collections.

So, that's about it. Like I said, not enough of his work is translated although I yet have to read any of them--except for the second poetry collection, which I have read already and that got me interested in Bukowski in the first place.

Buk would love you!

Welcome

Thank you, Lolita Ginsoski. I can only hope he would. ;)

Yeah, Lolita is right, and welcome. Are you a poet?

Thank you, Gerard K H Love. No, unfortunately not. I wasn't even particularly interested in poetry until I had a paper to write on the Beats--which is how I stumbled across Bukowski, too. Now I am rather interested because I didn't think poetry could be this much fun before. Unfortunately, though, I don't have any poetic talent whatsoever. But that doesn't mean I can't enjoy good poetry when I read it. :)

It was not rude at all.

Thank you very much, Bill. I am new to forums and I felt bad for just rushing in without properly introducing myself. Thank you for the welcome, I really appreciate it. :)

welcome, welcome, welcome

Thank you very much. :)

 

[roni]

welcome sun.
it seems, in eastern european counties people tend to drink. a friend of mine is romanian, another polish, they like their booze.

 

[sunflowersutra]

Thank you for the welcome, roni. :)

And yes, it seems to be true. I went to Czech once since I have relatives there and had to fight them off because they nearly put me in an alcohol-induced coma. Which is not saying much since I can't hold my liquor to save my life. ;)

 

[number6horse]

Welcome. :)
And I love your username.

 

[sunflowersutra]

Thank you very much. :)

And thank you. I'm currently writing a paper on the Beats, so I'm dealing with Ginsberg a lot and this was the first thing that popped into my head when I was asked for a username. :)

 

[cool kid of death]

Cheers, Sun!

Sunday morning, lalala.

 

[sunflowersutra]

Thank you~ :)

 

[zenguru]

From one completely new poster to another (even if I am newer than you), welcome to the boards!

Do you read more of his poetry or prose? I tend to read Buk's poetry more.