unfortunately, the net is also a place where otherwise nerdish bookworms can "act" all tough and self righteous
cheers
ps- odd that a hip writers forum (which i've been a member of 5 years) would consider anything not written horizontally as poetry...guess that makes an eye chart poesy...
well buk liked the starving artist
of hamsuns hunger
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cendrars
been thinkin abt this one all day
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the grandpa of buk
via daddy fante
the original english translation
(most prob know the later bly translation)
for ur illiterate listening pleasure
Hunger by Knut Hamsun.
1899 English translation by Mary Chavelita Dunne (under the alias George Egerton):-...
blah blah blah
who cares what the new yorker has to say about anything
thats like judging cutting edge humor based on saturday night live
marone!
how many articles did buk have in new yorker?
i seem to remember, that he ran from nyc
when he was givin the opportunity of possibly being...
i saw the play
in a theatre on bleeker st nyc
way before the movie came out
and when it ended
and the actors took their curtain calls
the actress that played the nurse was boo'ed heartily
lets hope she took it well
as a sign of her portrayal of villiany to a t
the screenplay was...
women
great as buks poetry was/is
he woulda never had this site ie made it big
iffin he hadnta writ post office.
both he and john martin knew it was gonna take a novel
to make the leap.
post office, factotum , the black sparrow poetry of the time and
city lights la press stories created a...
well i guess for me
genius equates with STYLE
witness:
Style is the answer to everything.
Fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous day.
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without style.
To do a dangerous thing with style, is what I call art...
genius
it's well known
its been seen countless times before
but its sooo true
and such simple genius
that i just can't resist
bukowski's ability
to voice profound
in simple english
never better
so just what does the king of beers drink in the bukowski tapes?
only the imports baby
molson ale
pilsner urquell
and becks
lotsa becks
good choices all around
cheers