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Here's Vollmann's new one, Poor People http://reviews.publishersweekly.com/bd.aspx?isbn=0060878827&pub=pw

That's it! That's the one! It's great stuff, eh. Gotta say, this is one heck of a forum, and not only because mjp (are you running this thing solo?) does a good job, but there are some fantastic writers here...not being one of them maybe I don't have the right to be impressed, but I'm...

Perhaps I'm teetering on the brink of blasphemy here, but did Buk allude to any ghost writing of his own work? It's been awhile since I've read most of his stuff, and unfortunately don't have his books of poetry in front of me. Could it be from Bone Palace Ballet or Rooming House...

Nathaniel Hawthorne crossed with the Comte de Latreamont

Someone mentioned William Vollmann.... He's a gem for sure. Incredibly prolific, and I usually don't trust writers with that much to say, but he pulls it off, and well at that. I started with 13 Stories and 13 Epitaphs and was off and running from there. Objectively speaking, I think...

John Prine is Excellent! Maybe the SECOND most literate postman America has ever had. Fish and whistle Whistle and fish Eat everything they put on your dish... I listen to that freaking song everytime before I grab my fly rod and hit the river

Even if I was butting in I wouldn't give a shit... Well Said nymark!

Abner Jay The vinyl geeks have know about him for years. Finally, finally he's gotten a cd release. He's maybe an entire world. He's definetly America. http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/jay.abner.html

I think Artaud's "Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society" is hands down the best thing he wrote. I believe to read Artaud in necessary. Hey HenryChinanski, I believe your above quote is the pinnacle of Artaud's Rimbaud-Wish, I also think it's a wish that increased his madness (I can't look...

I just feel to answer your question about my private thoughts regarding a gin drunk would be presenting my private demon to the world. That somehow lessens the intimacy, and I rather enjoy that intimacy. Okay. That's cool. Just to be clear, I wasn't really fishing for any personal...

Hey cheap gin cheap gin Being that you are a thinker and a drinker (partial to gin) I was wondering if you could write some about a gin drunk. I've surely drunk gin in the past, and do remember thinking well (as well as I could), at least compared to other drunks. Now that I think of...

well said poptop

Moby Dick When I first began I would sometimes catch myself wondering why... the cliche of the snobs that it has become BUT it truly is a strange book and I mean this in the most complimentary of ways; strangeness being, I believe, one of the seeds of that which makes a book or author...

Even my bad orgasms are good ones

In which poem does Buk talk about the alcoholics abilty to have endurance? I'm thinking it was Sep. Stew but I'm not sure....

In a Tee shirt....haha that was me a few years ago.... When I played hoops in university (before I fell head over heels for hallucinogenics, got a 0.0, failed out, and became a missionary) I wasn't just the only white dude on the bus but the only one reading Henry Miller as Public Enemy and...

Thanks for clearing up my cloudy memory (AKA My Bull Shit) Went back to the source and realized somehow I melded Buk's "Vallejo" with another poem, which is basically a list of authours/artists who died tragically, suicided, went nuts. Either way, The Late Peruvian is stuck in my craw so...

Thanks for the replies. Did Buk mention in one of his poems that Vallejo offed himself through hunger? I'm not one to necessarily be fascinated by death through suicide, but I do believe that one's death can tell us (or ourselves) a lot about the life in question. To starve oneslf...

Fair enough. There's no argument to be made against laughter.

Just got through with Dan Fante's Spitting Off Tall Buildings. I suppose I should thank this forum for cluing me into both Fantes, as this was the first I heard of either of them and never would have been able to pluck the thing off the shelf at used bookstore I shop at. Not sure what this...

mjp, If I'm not mistaken, you mean the best movie of the year was Me You and Everyone We Know.....? The first time I watched the thing I really wasn't sure if there was something about it I liked or disliked, so I had to watch it again. Sure enough, 2 times was enough. I truly hate to...

never read him looking either for english only or bilingual texts any recomendations as far as the better translations? also, I ask feeling a bit embarrassed, which Buk novel do you all recomend? I've only read his poetry, maybe about 8 books or so, never his novels Peace Hoping...

I say go for it futureactor What do these hacks know!? No, no, I take that back... ...after re-rereading your posts I've decided that since you seem (or at least hint at) being partial to the Sammy Hagar years of Van Halen and not the more obviously rockin David Lee Roth years, than you...

Skarving, Your in a class by yourself with that gig for sure. I lived in coastal Maine for a few years. Did some afternoon drinkning with a few lobstawmen. Especially enjoyed the stories of how justice meted itself out all quick like amongst what seemed to be a group of people who understood...

lol I was expecting more and harsher pokes in the ribs that just that! no more bread, is what I say