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Ah, Bukowski. Nothing was more important to him than fitting into stereotypes. He loved the whole romantic line of bullshit about poets being crazy, disorganized, bohemian people. He loved to shock his readers, his editors, his publishers, everybody he knew. But most of all, he LOVED being a man. Bu Leggi tutto

Some poets wrote for beauty or truth or insight. Some wrote to get the girls. Charles Bukowski wrote for effect. He wanted readers to feel. His prose – essays - are assemblages of weakness, drunkeness, raunch, and above all, vulgarity. If there ever was an anti-hero, an unsympathetic role model, he Leggi tutto

This publication is divided into three sections. The first presents some omitted stories from "Notes of a Dirty Old Man", the second the introductions Bukowski had written for the books of some of his peers, and the third some interviews with him. If anything is worthwhile in this edition, it is not Leggi tutto

I’d have given it five stars had Bukowski been less of a lout and misogynist. And yet, there’s a fantastic heart in there somewhere. I wish I could have had a beer with him.

Before reading this book, my only knowledge of Bukowski was having read a couple of his poems that appeared in various anthologies, and hearing his name bandied about as an example of a manly Hemingway-esque poet. The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way is a collection of various odds and ends by

Another Bukowski smorgasbord. May the fine people who run his estate never run out of barely publishable odds and ends.

This is a fun collection of random Bukowski odds and ends. The introduction frames the collection as an exploration of Buk as a writer. He so often wrote about being a writer or a poet but his conception of the writer was somewhat amorphous, he was trying to find what it was to be a writer or poet a Leggi tutto

Num volume que compila documentos dispersos, no género, na temática e na época de criação, vamos encontrar textos de valor diferente. Mas é uma compilação muito bem feita. Mais uma prova de que o todo é maior do que a soma das partes. É, pois, um livro indispensável para conhecer o escritor e o pens Leggi tutto