http://wordandobject.com/2008/01/bukowski/ Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:05:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://wordandobject.com/2008/01/bukowski/comment-page-1/#comment-7 David Calonne Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:45:05 +0000 http://kronemyer.com/2008/01/23/disneyland/bukowski/#comment-7 Great comments on Bukowski. Finally someone who gets it! I am just now teaching Derrida and the post-structuralists and think you have quite correctly connected him with their ideas and also accurately contrasted him with the Beats in this regard. Most people have not read all of Bukowski's huge oeuvre, and hence only see the surface "image" which he was at pains to construct, the mythic Chinaski--drinker, ladies man and madman. But Bukowski read Li Po, Hamsun, Celine, Artaud, Pound, Catullus and listened to Mahler, Sibelius, Stravinsky. And Jean-Paul Sartre wanted to meet Bukowski when he came to Paris. I don't think Sartre wanted to meet David L. Ulin.... Great comments on Bukowski. Finally someone who gets it! I am just now teaching Derrida and the post-structuralists and think you have quite correctly connected him with their ideas and also accurately contrasted him with the Beats in this regard. Most people have not read all of Bukowski’s huge oeuvre, and hence only see the surface “image” which he was at pains to construct, the mythic Chinaski–drinker, ladies man and madman. But Bukowski read Li Po, Hamsun, Celine, Artaud, Pound, Catullus and listened to Mahler, Sibelius, Stravinsky. And Jean-Paul Sartre wanted to meet Bukowski when he came to Paris. I don’t think Sartre wanted to meet David L. Ulin….

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