Did Bukowski have periods?

mjp

mjp

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There are 7500 threads around here that aren't about John Martin, so try that parochial bullshit elsewhere.
 
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I can't say for 100% certain but I doubt he planned out much of a plan throughout his life as to what "style" he was going to write from. He wrote about his everyday experiences. He wrote from his heart, he wrote from his gut. I go on record as saying he had no style, or periods, and gave very little thought to a plan. Remember, he wrote "don't try." Its on his grave stone for God's sake. Buk was all about just letting it happen. He would sit and wait. He would wait for the poem to write it self.
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My interest... is not so much what Bukowski tried to make of his writing, but how we as readers can categorize it as a whole. Whether or not Bukowski meant to have a certain style is another matter. (And I say he did, because in many places he discusses writing styles that were boring, phony, dull, etc.) And on this note, Bukowski made revisions to poems and novels. It was not a spontaneous outpouring of his soul.
 
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mjp said:
The day I put the article up and promoted the link on Twitter and Google+ the views went up to over 400 a day.
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For some reason (I'll have to check the referrers) more than 1,000 people hit the article on Thursday. So it's still attracting attention.

Maybe I should have held off publishing The senseless, tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost; the prequel. But I'm not really too good at holding off.

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It's on the second page of Google results for bukowski black sparrow now...
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Now it's on the first page. #9, with a pretty picture of me, so the hit men can find me.

Turns out the spike on Wednesday/Thursday/Friday was from Facebook. But you don't get specific referral info from them, just a generic facebook.com.

Okay, carry on.
 
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