![]() ![]() Interestingly, in his best poems, the tough guy persona falls away and one discovers a sensitive poet who chose to adopt a savage bravado. ![]() One senses that he was an idealist soured by the ravages of time, wearied by political betrayals, and rather appalled by the vacuity of the American left and contemporary American writers who seemed to be playing it safe and producing pallid prose and senselessly arcane poetry. He was neither a poet’s poet nor a people’s poet, but a personal poet who used his craft to ensure his own survival.īukowski’s “tough guy” image was less posturing than self-protective. ![]() Facing it right with yourself, alone.” It is this kind of courage and stoicism that informs Bukowski’s canon. The futility and senselessness of most human endeavor conjoined with the desperation and essential solitude of the individual are constants reinforcing his “slavic nihilism.” The trick, he suggested, is “carrying on when everything seems so terrible there is no use to go on. Living on the periphery of society, Charles Bukowski ( Aug– March 9, 1994) forged a brutally honest poetic voice. ![]()
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