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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. What makes Bukowski so unique? Thread starter cirerita Start date Sep 23, That's one of the questions I asked all the people I interviewed in the US while doing my research into B.
Actually, the questions were: What makes Bukowski's voice so unique? What's so compelling about his work -not his persona? Would you say he belonged to a literary movement or was he a "lone wolf", as Blazek said? Ok, guys, open fire Bukowski lived, he roamed, he experienced a variety of 'living' situations; good and bad, sometimes very bad.
I believe Bukowski had 'something' to write about. For some of us being forced to read Shakespeare in high school was a major downer, to later on discover a writer B using language and words we speak and understood was very appealing.
Many compelling aspects to his work; just the vast amount of writing is impressive. The variety of the short stories, poetry, novels delivers so much more than you find from other writers. Bukowski didn't belong to any movement certainly not the BEATS , he was far and beyond any group of writers from his time.
He was the last one that wanted to be grouped with 'others', he was an individual, no other poet comes close to what Bukowski achieved. Brother Schenker Founding member. This sums my thoughts up quite perfectly. But what attracted me most to Bukowskis writing was the simplicity, the conversational feel, the feeling you where talking to the man on the street.
Bukowski was of no school of writing Bukowski is a kind of precursor to all the 'bad' small time poets, internet poets, average poets, terrible poets, loner poets, the poets who will not be known outside of a few close family and friends. Olaf said:.
Bukowski works on different levels, for better or for worse. An uncannily prolific afterlife was something that Bukowski counted on. And he rejected on principle the notion of poetry as a craft, a matter of labor and revision. Such poems offer the same kind of vicarious wish fulfillment that differently inclined readers might find in spy novels or gangster movies, with their parodies of unbound masculinity.
He bears the same relation to poetry as Zane Grey does to fiction, or Ayn Rand to philosophy—a highly colored, morally uncomplicated cartoon of the real thing. The crucial episodes in his biography are reworked again and again in his poems and novels, so that any reader quickly learns the broad outlines of his story.
Look at your knickers and shirt! Why do you do this to your clothes? Born in Germany to an American-serviceman father and a German mother, Bukowski moved at the age of three to Los Angeles. The Depression, which shadowed his whole adolescence, affected him primarily through his father, who took out his frustrations on his wife and son.
Bukowski describes terrible beatings, sadistically inflicted for minor transgressions like missing a blade of grass when he mowed the lawn. There they were—all the withheld screams—spouting out in another form.
This disfigurement helped to make Bukowski a surly, friendless teen-ager. But there was another element in his isolation, one that he dwells on much less often—an innate sensitivity and intelligence, which led to the first stirrings of literary ambition.
This is a standard element in the biography of most poets, but it fits awkwardly with the myth of Bukowski the tough, who constantly proclaims his contempt for mere bookishness.
Most surprisingly, he admires the New Critics, whose aesthetics of complexity and impersonality he so gleefully violated. I knew Hank. Brought him to Vancouver October Mine was his second last. I actually spent a week at his home where were invited to attend the Redondo reading… I know all this stuff you are going on about. Very nice. Very true. But slow down. Feels like you were on speed or in a hurry to get to your next event or topic.
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