http://slstellingstories.com/2010/01/who-writes-poetry/ A little poetry, a little prose, from Shari Lynne Smothers Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://slstellingstories.com/2010/01/who-writes-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-639 Shari Smothers Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:12:10 +0000 http://slstellingstories.com/?p=2711#comment-639 Thanks for the recommendations and further insights. I have to check out more of the poems he kept. I wondered about the posthumous releases, but I didn't guess they were comprised of the writings he'd tossed. Good to know. Thanks for the recommendations and further insights. I have to check out more of the poems he kept. I wondered about the posthumous releases, but I didn't guess they were comprised of the writings he'd tossed. Good to know.

]]> http://slstellingstories.com/2010/01/who-writes-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Shari Smothers Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:12:10 +0000 http://slstellingstories.com/?p=2711#comment-337 Thanks for the recommendations and further insights. I have to check out more of the poems he kept. I wondered about the posthumous releases, but I didn't guess they were comprised of the writings he'd tossed. Good to know. Thanks for the recommendations and further insights. I have to check out more of the poems he kept. I wondered about the posthumous releases, but I didn't guess they were comprised of the writings he'd tossed. Good to know.

]]> http://slstellingstories.com/2010/01/who-writes-poetry/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Mark Jackson Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:41:27 +0000 http://slstellingstories.com/?p=2711#comment-332 Buk is THE man, I return to 'The Last Night of the Earth Poems' constantly. I don't like any of the posthumous releases, these are the poems that Buk had discarded in his morning review. His routine was to get out of bed around midday, go to the track, home around seven or eight, bottle of wine or two then sit at his typewriter with more wine and bash out anything from five to twenty five poems per night. The next morning when he was slightly sober he would read through them all and throw three quarters away. I highly recommend the documentary 'Bukowski: Born Into This' and also the Barbet Shroeder tapes filmed during Shroeder's directing of Barfly. Buk is THE man, I return to 'The Last Night of the Earth Poems' constantly. I don't like any of the posthumous releases, these are the poems that Buk had discarded in his morning review. His routine was to get out of bed around midday, go to the track, home around seven or eight, bottle of wine or two then sit at his typewriter with more wine and bash out anything from five to twenty five poems per night. The next morning when he was slightly sober he would read through them all and throw three quarters away. I highly recommend the documentary 'Bukowski: Born Into This' and also the Barbet Shroeder tapes filmed during Shroeder's directing of Barfly.

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