Bukowski thread

[Anonymous No.3405833]

"I love Bukowski because he writes with his soul. Because he is lovable even in his darkest times. I love him because he is true to himself, to his words, to his readers. I love him for being an innovator in the chapbook/zine days, which have sort of always gone on, but a force at the beginning of the major wave of such publications that crested in my lifetime. I love him because he's so matter-of fact about really screwed up situations, and because he makes my own alcoholism seem less raging. I love him because in my darkest hours he makes me laugh. I love him for his cool attitude about everything; got no money? Its okay, gamble and drink the little that's left. Job sucks? hate your boss? its okay; teach the prick a lesson before you quit. I love Bukowski because he doesn't care about material things or money, he lives life on his own terms, the way he wants. I love Bukowski because he doesn't give a fuck if I love him or hate him, he's his own man."

-Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.
Why I love Bukowski Vol. 7, p872.

[Anonymous No.3405848]

>>3405833
>some angry old man from decades ago

Why should I care about him again? The video of him kicking his wife was lulzy though.

[Anonymous No.3405879]

>>3405848
He's popular with freshmen.

[Anonymous No.3405902]

>>3405879
Actually the opposite is true. Freshman have a tendency to lean towards elitism. It's the freshman reading Wallace and Joyce. Teenagers Read Palahniuk and Ellis, and grown up mature readers like Bukowski.

[Anonymous No.3405906]

>>3405902
>Generalisations

[Anonymous No.3405931]

>>3405902
>Wallace
>elitism

[Anonymous No.3405942]

>>3405902

For a second I thought you meant Wallace Stevens.

[Anonymous No.3405952]

>>3405931
Lol. She started at the back.

[Anonymous No.3405962]

That's clearly not a real quote but you had me fooled for a few seconds.

[Anonymous No.3405990]

>>3405931
>what the fuck is this gibberish I'm reading

[Anonymous No.3406729]

"Bukowski, well you came and you gave me a drinksi.
And I read you today, Bukowski.
And you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, Bukowski."

[Anonymous No.3406797]

>>3405833
Hey, man. It's "The Dude."

[Anonymous No.3406814]

>>3405902
HAHAH

I'm at a community college and on the first day half the kids in my Poetry Workshop class cited Bukowski as one of their favorites.

Most freshmen have not touched a word of Joyce. Get off /lit/ and you'd know this.

[Anonymous No.3406846]

>>3406814
That's his poetry, it's a little different. Bukowski is probably the best poet of the last 50 years.

[Anonymous No.3406853]

>>3406846
>Bukowski is probably the best poet of the last 50 years.

Please stop.

[Anonymous No.3406879]

>>3406846
Trolling hard...

[Anonymous No.3406893]

>>3406814
>does poetry workshop at community college
>speaking of anything with smug authority at all
>ever

[Anonymous No.3406898]

>>3406853
>>3406879
washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook
out again
I write from the bed
as I did last
year.
will see the doctor,
Monday.
"yes, doctor, weak legs, vertigo, head-
aches and my back
hurts."
"are you drinking?" he will ask.
"are you getting your
exercise, your
vitamins?"
I think that I am just ill
with life, the same stale yet
fluctuating
factors.
even at the track
I watch the horses run by
and it seems
meaningless.
I leave early after buying tickets on the
remaining races.
"taking off?" asks the motel
clerk.
"yes, it's boring,"
I tell him.
"If you think it's boring
out there," he tells me, "you oughta be
back here."
so here I am
propped up against my pillows
again
just an old guy
just an old writer
with a yellow
notebook.
something is
walking across the
floor
toward
me.
oh, it's just
my cat
this
time.

[Anonymous No.3406905]

>>3406898
Imagine chatting with him online.

[Anonymous No.3406912]

>>3406905
hahahaha. Genuinely laughed.

[Anonymous No.3406915]

>>3406893
>posts on an anime imageboard filled with pedophiles
>speaking of anything with smug authority at all
>ever

This fallacy is too easy, friend.

[Anonymous No.3406982]

>>3406905
>>3406912
Bukowski would've probably loved 4chan.

[Anonymous No.3407166]

I love Bukowski like a man loves a man he never touches.