Tuesday Dec 06, 2005

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"Shakespeare is shit"

Charles Bukowski



Discuss.

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fred:
That drunk ole little Bukowski punk ain't got nothin on me.
-- Shakespeare

Well, Shakespeare I think is one of the classics taught everyone for a good reason. Even so I think after 400 years or whatever the language just doesn't truly register with the typical person.
Like billyfivecrows said, you an appreciate it more as written than spoken. For me it mostly sounds like a bunch of archaic language I can only half understand which is annoying.

Bukowski of course is much more modern and relevant but I think his biggest distinction is more his attitude and viewpoint than actual works. That's not entirely fair since I haven't read much of his stuff. But from what I have read that's my impression anyway.
And the whole living in sordid drunken filth as being the way to go just doesn't really make much sense the more you think about it. It seems more like a copout.
billyfivecrows:
Yeah, it seems the date would make a great title. Perfect.

Me and titles: Sometimes the title is tacked on as an afterthought. Sometimes I get a title and then construct a poem based on the title. Rarely, but it doees happen, it has no title. (I like to play the field within my style!)

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The Lennon piece was improvised onto my journal, with a little tweaking to clean it up, make it flow. I knew I wanted to write something, but didn't know what. I just opened myself up, and there it was. Glad you liked it.

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Litkicks is a nice place. Used to be much bigger, kind of like SG, with more boards and more of a community feel, but it was harder to manage, so they pared it down. It's still fun.

I'll check out your piece on there.

Peace

-c.

(Oh...I mildly disagree with FRED. I think Buk's lifestyle was perfectly natural for him. He had no choice. It was research, certainly, but also deeply ingrained. He almost seemed like a Zen master in the middle of it all! Any copout, in my, poinion, is when other writers try to emulate that lifestyle to write like him. God knows I did it, and it almost killed me! I'm into being nicer to myself these days.)



[Edited on Dec 09, 2005 11:37AM]

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