A question about Bukowski

[downmaster]

What his writing style? I recently started reading his poems and I couldn't quite put my thumb on it. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[bospress.net]

Entertaining...

 

[mjp]

Come on Bill, it's a serious question!

downmaster, Bukowski's writing style is a cross between "left-behind" rapture scriptures and the captions under the polaroids on an old Hustler magazine Beaver Hunt page.

Put your thumb on that.

Glad to be of service.

 

[downmaster]

Thanks for your answers. I will keep it in mind when reading more.

 

[Gin Soaked Boy]

What I understand he based his early work on readeroriented semiotics with just a hint of russian formalism while his later books (Hot Water Music and forward) are clearly influenced by ezras new criticism and the emerging ecocriticism.

 

[zenguru]

downmaster, if I were you, I wouldn't touch a Hustler magazine in any way whatsoever. Not without gloves and a dustmask.

 

[d gray]

he's a beat meat poet

 

[Lolita Twist]

Rugged individualism.

 

[Bukfan]

he's a beat meat poet

Or a meat beating poet.:p