Work is death - A Left look at Bukowski and "the job"

[vox]

Though acadmics may piss and moan about him, Bukowski, especially in his early career, wrote some damn fine stuff. In "CounterPunch," Anis Shivani takes a look at Bukowski's attitude toward work (http://www.counterpunch.org/shivani0925.html).

Damn straight.

vox

[peaccenicked]

I read "The Post office'' and ''Septegenerian Stew''
My literary colleagues.......drinking companions consider criticism of Bukowski- Blasphemy - I have been conditioned somewhat. I definitely liked the former work.

[vox]

Post Office wasn't bad at all. Septaugenarian Stew was a late work, and had a few good things in it, but by that time Bukowski was a bit lazy. Hell, he had poems where he said, basically, that he was scamming everyone. Not a lot of great art, but there are worse things than comfortable writing in a clear style. I think may favorite of his is probalby Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, and Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame, a collection of his early chapbooks, has some fine stuff, too.

vox

[canikickit]

Bukowski, eh?
My brother got me this book for my birthday: "Bukowski and the Beats" by Jean-Francois Duval.
Any of ye know anything about it?
Pretty much all I know about him was that Hunter Thompson was probably a fan. It looks good.

[deadpool 52]

Bukowski is fifty on my list of author's books to read.

(Edited by deadpool 52 at 8:09 am on Sep. 28, 2002)

[canikickit]

Post your list so we can ridicule your choices and ban you for having righest leanings (probably).

[Valkyrie]

I want those books!!! I'm tired! I want to get off this merry-go-round.

Here's an essay in the same vein, by Bob Black - "The Abolition of Work." Long but sweet.

www.zpub.com/notes/black-work.html

Down with all Work!

[deadpool 52]

Quote: from canikickit on 10:03 am on Sep. 28, 2002
Post your list so we can ridicule your choices and ban you for having righest leanings (probably).


That is some nice spelling you have there. http://www.bladegash.net/forums/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
A joke, no?

Vox, after read that excellent article, I Bukowski has upped in my list.

(Edited by deadpool 52 at 8:03 am on Oct. 5, 2002)

[doolally]

i've read maybe 22 or 23 of Bukowksi's books and remember these fondly:

The Roominghouse Madrigals
Burning In Water Drowning In Flame
Dangling In The Tournefortia (sp?)
War All The Time

-but having grown my understanding of how meaning is created since I read him [in college] I now have a hard time finding a way past the sexism and misogyny.

-dool