MetaFilter posts tagged with bukowski

Poetry mashups: These are not the beats you were looking for

mosk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:22:03 -0800

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. See hover text for link descriptions. Acknowledgement/Mea Culpa: The T.S. Eliot/Portishead mashup was a previous FPP in its own right, (props, hypersloth!) but it fit so well with the other links that I included it in this FPP anyway.

Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain The boundless Godhead

rudster — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:29:38 -0800

"No notice was taken by the press of artist-writer Sheri Martinelli's death in November 1996, unfairly ignoring the significant role she played in the cultural history of our time." Just to drop a few names. Nin. Pound. Parker. Gaddis. Cummings. Bukowski. Brando. A staggering roll-call for a life almost forgotten.

Julia Pott's First Crush

kudzu — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:53:39 -0800

Animation: Julia Pott just graduated from Kingston University on animation and illustration. She has made some short movies and two books. Charles Bukowski's "The Man With The Beautiful Eyes" is an inspiration among others.

Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski

xmutex — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:30:55 -0800

Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski. via

More Buk

liam — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:39:37 -0800

Bukowski. Complementary to previous Hank.

Through All the Lousy Luck

matteo — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:14:44 -0800

I first read "Ask the Dust" in 1971 when I was doing research for "Chinatown". I was concerned about the way people really sounded when they talked, and I was dissatisfied with everything else I had read that was written during the '30s. I wanted the real thing, as Henry James would say. When I picked up Fante's "Ask the Dust," I just knew that was the way those kids talked to each other—the rhythms, cadences, racism.
Robert Towne on adapting John Fante's novel for the big screen. More inside.

Poetry Crit

rainbaby — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:40:14 -0800

An insightful piece of poetry criticism by Adam Kirsch encapsulates the work of Charles Bukowski, popular poet with MeFi's and others. Camile Paglia has a go at poetry crit in her latest, Break, Blow, Burn. I read the Kirsch piece because I have a passing familiarity with Bukowski, and if I saw someone reading a volume, I'd have some snap insight into what their interests may be. Though I often judge a reader by their book's cover, I could do this with very few poetry books, and I can't remember seeing anyone with a poetry book, or telling me about a poetry book in a long time. While some of us read for pleasure, we probably aren't reading poetry. The slam poetry movement of a few years ago seems to have lost its media fire. The death of poetry is periodically announced, and others disagree. My casual observation is that many poetry lovers actually write poetry, and are not students of the genre. Poems are short, it's easy to call something a poem, and it may make the writer feel better to write one out. Rarely are they good, and rarer still will they find an audience outside of web communities of other poetry writers. Can vigorous and accessible poetry criticism revive poetry readership? Does anyone who does not write poems read poetry, especially unfamiliar poetry? Will anyone cop to writing it but not reading it? And should we care?

Bukowski: Born Into This

matteo — Fri, 28 May 2004 12:02:59 -0800

"Whadyawant, motherf*ck?" These are the first words Charles Bukowski speaks in John Dullaghan's documentary about the poet and novelist, famous for his writing and infamous for his drinking and brawling and screwing. The audience member might respond, "To hear your story, Hank, that's what I want." The movie opens with friends (Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Bono) and colleagues and lovers and fans recounting the myth; theirs are stories of blades pulled on the maitre d' of the swanky Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills, of dangling dicks revealed in public, of a drunk who'd just as soon crack his bottle over your head than share its contents. (more inside)

josholalia — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:04:20 -0800

Remembering Bukowski I've read some nice Bukowski tributes before, but this one seems particularly a propos given the kind of summer LA's been having. Viva La Reverend Tony!