Tuesday, October 25 2011
Rapper and Mystic: Two Sides of Charles Bukowski
Like all mystics, Bukowski felt strongly that man’s way of living was insane, that we are asleep if we accept, blindly, the pointless, soul-destroying, undignified, unmanly nature of the nine-to-five.
Friday, May 27 2011
Nicholas Urie: My Garden
Like Bukowski, the gloomy laureate whose work is re-sounded here, Nichloas Urie is not afraid to walk on the dark side. He's also able to find fragments of beauty in the gloom.
Wednesday, May 27 2009
La Grande Bouffe & Tales of Ordinary Madness
La Grande Bouffe and Tales of Ordinary Madness are products of a dark worldview. Neither offers solutions about how to improve a disintegrating society.
Friday, November 14 2008
The Hardest Work Imaginable: Bukowski’s Wine-Stained Notebook
Fear, one must understand, is the lubricant that keeps the wheels of human progress greased. Charles Bukowski understood this concept all too well.
Tuesday, October 7 2008
Bukowski: What Lies Beneath
During the rare moments when Charles Bukowski's vulnerable side are shown, they manage to break through the "dirty old man" parody of himself that he had become.
Monday, July 26 2004
Bukowski at Bellevue (2004)
The man had a soul, and the contribution of this lonely fact to American art is worth remembering when all the other nonsense is rightfully forgotten.
Wednesday, February 12 2003
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski
'Regular people' can read and appreciate Bukowski. I doubt scholars will find a distinct identity in each successive volume of his posthumous work, but that doesn't seem terribly unusual to me.
