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Bukowski: Poetry in Motion
Charles Bukowski's contribution to Voyager's "Poetry in Motion" series in which he tears down some classic authors and then explains the great importance of a good, hot beer shit.
Jul 22, 2007 10:07 AM
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You ever see a link description so good you just want to vote high without even watching?
By: bryan
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and then the content delivered on its promise. I so totally have felt lately like the little insignificant sliver of an art scene which i was once heavily involved in has degenerated so pathetically that I need to step in and start working on it again. spot on.
By: bryan
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Yes, I admire the concept of 'writing like a man', and it is certainly true that one cannot write poetry, criticism, or philosophy without a sense of injustice. But the injustice that he speaks about in this film stinks of over-confidence and self-absorption -- and, yes, masturbation would be a very appropriate activity for such poets.
Has this white man forgotten about real injustice, and not merely anti-intellectualism. Such words would never come out of anybody who has experienced real injustice in their lives, and not merely a hatred of intellectuals and classical literature. Indeed, we have little to fear from the intellectuals, with their love of old books, most will die obscure deaths. It's easy to criticize these eggheads, but they hold so little power already, that one should feel kind of embarrassed. It takes a bit of patience, however, to remember the type of injustice that drove these old intellectuals though, or a classical writer, like a Tolstoy, or a Faulkner.
Has this white man forgotten about real injustice, and not merely anti-intellectualism. Such words would never come out of anybody who has experienced real injustice in their lives, and not merely a hatred of intellectuals and classical literature. Indeed, we have little to fear from the intellectuals, with their love of old books, most will die obscure deaths. It's easy to criticize these eggheads, but they hold so little power already, that one should feel kind of embarrassed. It takes a bit of patience, however, to remember the type of injustice that drove these old intellectuals though, or a classical writer, like a Tolstoy, or a Faulkner.
By: q335r49
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Actually, I think masturbation more accurately reflects the 'intellectual' poets. Not only in their work, but the way they publish each other, review each other, keep their literature as exclusionary and inaccessible as possible so that only 'intellectual' writers would want to bother to read it. Poetry, like any art, should entertain and speak to people. Bukowski relishes in his oafishness, but he's certainly more alive and accessible to every day people today than Tolstoy, Faulkner or whichever academic poet nobody has heard of.
Anyway, I think the point is that poetry should be accessible, an appreciation of everything. Currently it's been hijacked and secluded in academic circles, with the rest of the too board or alienated to care.
Anyway, I think the point is that poetry should be accessible, an appreciation of everything. Currently it's been hijacked and secluded in academic circles, with the rest of the too board or alienated to care.
By: RedFez
