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Charles Bukowski
Reading Buk No. 4
‘the writer’
By Charles Bukowski
from The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 3
‘the miracle’
By Charles Bukowski
from The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 2
‘mind and heart’
By Charles Bukowski
from Come On In!
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Reading Buk No. 1
‘some notes on Bach and Haydn’
By Charles Bukowski
from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.
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Celebrate Poetry
“April is the cruelest month.”—from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
It’s also National Poetry Month, and the Academy of American Poets (which started the annual celebration in 1996 as a means to rekindle interest in the art and to highlight its important role in American culture) is offering a Poem-A-Day throughout the month—a new poem direct to you inbox to begin your day. Read more…
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Sifting Through the Madness
A Conversation With Michael J. Phillips,
Founder and Editor of Bukowski.net
From the moment I read my first Bukowski poem (“so you want to be a writer?”) in my first Bukowski book (“sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way”), I was hooked.
I had never read anything like it, and I wanted more—and more.
Over the next several years, I would buy a new Bukowski book—a collection of poems, columns, stories, letters, essays, or a full-length novel—whenever possible. The sheer volume of his work is matched only by the quality of it all. As my writing partner (who first recommended Bukowski) and I often do during late-night, wine-drinking phone conversations, picking any page number from any collection results in the same reaction: “Wow!” Read more…
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