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Bezig met laden... Tempête pour les morts et les vivantsdoor Charles Bukowski
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In this collection we get a full flavour of his preoccupations – gutter-level working-class life, writers and writing, sex, the absurdity of the times, his readers, a love of the zoo of life and humanity. Some poems, such as the peppery “Tough Luck“ – “I remember this time in the German prison camp / we gotta hold of this queer / they come in handy in times of no women” – seem designed to offend. Others, such as the graphic “Love Song” – “I have swallowed the seed / the fuzz / locked in your legs” – reflect his desire to liberate poetry from what he called “anti-life, anti-truth”. “I would break the boulevards like straws / and put old rattled poets who sip milk / and lift weights / into the drunk tanks from Iowa to San Diego,” runs “Corrections of self, mostly after Whitman”. And like a latter-day Whitman, in these poems Bukowski ranges over the full panorama of human behaviour, an approach someone can only do justice to by fully immersing themselves in the poems themselves. Far from barrel-scrapings – a charge commonly levelled at Bukowski’s poetry – these are often masterly, and importantly very funny, celebrations of what one critic has called “the aesthetic of the little event”. “Love is wonderful,” he writes in “Warm Water Bubbles”, “but so is the stench of innards / the coming forth of the hidden parts / the fart / the turd / the death of a lung.” There’s gold in this gutter.
A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published. In Storm for the Living and the Dead, Abel Debritto has curated a collection of rare and never- before-seen material--poems from obscure, hard-to-find magazines, as well as from libraries and private collections all over the country. In doing so, Debritto has captured the essence of Bukowski's inimitable poetic style--tough and hilarious but ringing with humanity. Storm for the Living and the Dead is a gift for any devotee of the Dirty Old Man of American letters. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Nice to see you again, Buk.
They dug through your bones
Found poems, some
Uncollected
Others,
Unpublished.
Propped them up along with
Your doodles, which
To be honest…
Aren't that great but
I still like you, Buk.
You still got the chops, man.
The magic is still there
In some of these poems.
Some still sparkle, like jewels
In the morning sunlight
After a night of debauchery
And inebriated romance.
Others,
Well... let's just say
Reading this collection
Of your poems
Is like looking at Polaroid photos
Of anyone's life.
They show--scattershot,
How the work can be inconsistent
Over a long period of time.
Though not as glorious as
Your other collections,
Like
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
Or
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
It was still nice to hear your voice
Again.
Like a fog horn
Blowing in the night.
Your glorious literary voice is still
M O N U M E N T A L!
I loved seeing the
Photocopies of poems
Letters on the page like
Bullet holes through a paper target.
Nice shot, man!
You were a sharpshooter, Buk.
Don't worry. I got your back. But,
Please, if you could,
Send a memo. Shoot a fax.
To whoever is in charge of
Your legacy.
There is nothing left to prove.
I still like you, Buk.
You were a sharpshooter, man.
Got any beer?
No?!
Sorry to hear that. ( )