Off topic: c. bukowski - (German-born) American poet: \'if we take -\' Thread poster: A Hayes (X)
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A Hayes (X) Australia Local time: 14:48
and yet another (German-born) American writer... informal style, non-conforming literary approach... an honorary Beat poet- if we take-
if we take what we can see - the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds; flowers rotting, flies web caught; riots, roars of caged lions, clowns in love with dollar bills, nations... See more and yet another (German-born) American writer... informal style, non-conforming literary approach... an honorary Beat poet- if we take-
if we take what we can see - the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds; flowers rotting, flies web caught; riots, roars of caged lions, clowns in love with dollar bills, nations moving people like pawns; daylight thieves with beautiful nighttime wives and wines; the crowded jails, the commonplace unemployed, dying grass, 2-bit fires; men old enough to love the grave.
These things, and others, in content show life swinging on a rotten axis.
But they`ve left us a bit of music and a spiked show in the corner, a jigger of scotch, a blue necktie, a small volume of poems by Rimbaud, a horse running as if the devil were twisting his tail over bluegrass and screaming, and then, love again like a streetcar turning the corner on time, the city waiting, the wine and the flowers, the water walking across the lake and summer and winter and summer and summer and winter again.
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Aurora Humarán (X) Argentina Local time: 01:48 English to Spanish + ...
I LOVE Bukowski, thank you!
Aurora | | |
Bukowski's great | Dec 23, 2002 |
And I had never heard of him. I\'ll see if I can find some more. And now that we\'re on the the beat poets, here\'s another one:
The Pennycandystore Beyond the El
The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love With unreality Jellybeans glowed in the semi-gloom of that september afternoon A cat upon the counter moved among ... See more And I had never heard of him. I\'ll see if I can find some more. And now that we\'re on the the beat poets, here\'s another one:
The Pennycandystore Beyond the El
The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love With unreality Jellybeans glowed in the semi-gloom of that september afternoon A cat upon the counter moved among the licorice sticks and tootsie rolls and Oh Boy Gum
Outside the leaves were falling as they died
A wind had blown away the sun
A girl ran in Her hair was rainy Her breasts were breathless in the little room
Outside the leaves were falling and they cried Too soon! too soon!
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
El = The elevated railway in New York City
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Aurora Humarán (X) Argentina Local time: 01:48 English to Spanish + ... Jack Kerouac | Dec 23, 2002 |
More beat literature....
Au
Cat
My cat Knows stuff.
What he knows, I don’t.
He lies there, Sloe-eyed, Wise-faced, knowing, Not telling.
He comes to me For a pat & a rub, Or a ca... See more More beat literature....
Au
Cat
My cat Knows stuff.
What he knows, I don’t.
He lies there, Sloe-eyed, Wise-faced, knowing, Not telling.
He comes to me For a pat & a rub, Or a can of Smelly fish.
His secret’s safe. I can never tell What I don’t know
I now understand why I\'m afraid of cats... Because they \"know\".... Au
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A Hayes (X) Australia Local time: 14:48 TOPIC STARTER snake eye - by leroi jones (amiri baraka) | Dec 24, 2002 |
That force is lost Which shaped me, spent in its image, battered, an old brown thing swept off the streets where it sucked its gentle living.
And what is meat to do, that is driven to its end by words? The frailest gestures grown like skirts around breathing. We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For ins... See more That force is lost Which shaped me, spent in its image, battered, an old brown thing swept off the streets where it sucked its gentle living.
And what is meat to do, that is driven to its end by words? The frailest gestures grown like skirts around breathing. We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance,
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Daniel Alcaine-Rich, M.V., BSc (X) English to Spanish great stuff, munchkin | Dec 24, 2002 |
and also, he had some \"novels\" published (or, rather, compilations of his stories).
Never knew he was \"classified\" in the beat \"movement\", I simply \"devoured\" his stuff.
kudos -dani | | |
EDLING (X) English to Spanish + ... Bukowski at university | Jan 11, 2003 |
I \"had\" to read a couple of his novels at the university (yes, in Spain, in the early 80\'s!) as well as some of his poems and became definitely trapped. I later read most his other novels and poems. | | |