Play the Piano Drunk and War All the Time.

[Josh Rock]

it is looking like these will be next on my list after I am done with The Days Run Away and Mockingbird...

what am I to expect from Play the Piano Drunk... and War All the Time?

is it me or did Buk's poetry get better as he got older? maybe he refined his ways?

 

[Erik]

I know he was fined several times for d.u.i. , so its pretty likely he got fined for his ways as well...

 

[Josh Rock]

haa

 

[Erica C.]

Many critics believe War All the Time to be one of his better anthologies. It is certainly a very tight collection of work with a narrative voice deceptively weaving together his own subjective experience of a, seemingly, objective world into one hell of a social commentary that sort of smacks you in the face a few seconds after you've finished the poem(s). It is ALMOST as if by accident.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

man, you sure do talk fancy.

 

[Erica C.]

Hey, I said 'hell' and 'smack'. Okay, okay. How's this: It is such a fucking good book (about a man's observations of his own world) that I almost shit my pants every time I read it.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

fuckin' A.

 

[mjp]

I almost shit my pants every time I read it.

Only almost?

You have to forgive hoochmonkey9, he's country folk. He don't have the book-learnin' that me an you have.

 

[Erica C.]

Yes. I've come to expect amazing work from this author. See my previous post for a less scatalogical explanation.