Does reading Bukowski make you want to write?

T

theromper

when i first read bukowski back in my freshman year of high school, i think i wrote something like 150 poems emulating his style. and they're bad. since then i've really evolved as a writer, and i've worked at developing my own voice. but i regard that period of blatant copying his style as very important to my own growth as a writer. without that emulation (or imitation) i wouldn't have found out how much i love to read and write poetry. and ultimately, i think bukowski, as much as he seemed like he just didn't care, would be flattered that he inspired a large amount of people to write. oh i really should dig up those old bukowski poems though, they're pretty funny. and i have some cummings attempts too, but that's for another forum i guess.
 
S

Sircha

Maybe they aren't as good to you now as you thought they were then, but I bet there's a part of you that still loves 'em anyway!

Cheers!
 
M

Mybeerdrunksoul

uhh yeah Bukowski makes me want to write. I don't expect to ever be published, but I come home at night from work, and I live alone, so I drink a good many beers, and smoke cigarettes and type away, what I'm feeling, I type about events of my day. I don't expect anyone should give a crap, I just like to do it. I think Bukowski knew when he wrote Ham on Rye that we would be able to relate somewhat to his stories of a badass broken home and his first time trying wine in his friends cellar, I think he knew we would say "hey man, that sounds familiar" and I think that was part of his beauty, he knew how to reach everyone else. Im drunk. Sorry, but I dig it man.
 
A

adrian

Yes reading Bukowski makes me want to write. But then the stark reality of the fact that I can't write a jot, hits home :eek:
 
G

Garret

"In the past it was seen as valid, even essential, to copy the masters and thereby learn. Current thinking is that this is now somehow outdated, naff and unoriginal. I challenge this notion. Too my mind it does a chap, or lass, good to try walking about in someone else's skin for an hour or two. It brings us closer to the artist we are honouring, closer to ourselves and thereby closer to God."

--Billy Childish (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2819027)
 
Last edited by a moderator:
S

Sircha

I wonder, has there ever been an artist, singer, writer etc.. who has not at one time copied an admired master?
 
Last edited by a moderator:
P

Paul186

That hit it for me. His "no holds barred," to his feelings and impressions
frees one from our repressed horseshit.
Art (movies, painting , even chickenwire performance dancing..)
shows us it's okay to be human and not have to hide a past of
(what we once thought) hideous indignities.
What a waste of years I've had trying to be a phoney yuppie to get laid.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top