tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239657309427202553.post3249591847899049309..comments2024-03-14T08:43:45.183-04:00Comments on The VĂ©hicule Press Blog: Bukowski's WorldVĂ©hicule Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00818162880719157747noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239657309427202553.post-53940215084259252122012-10-16T13:07:07.391-04:002012-10-16T13:07:07.391-04:00Heh. Also: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-m...Heh. Also: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-on-personal-mission-to-explain-why-univer,29922/<br />Zachariah Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239657309427202553.post-60831163396764865822012-10-14T21:05:02.553-04:002012-10-14T21:05:02.553-04:00Which is to say that I find mistakes that convenie...Which is to say that I find mistakes that conveniently fit an apparently pre-formed thesis highly suspect.Zachariah Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239657309427202553.post-12646235850814019152012-10-14T21:03:13.317-04:002012-10-14T21:03:13.317-04:00More precisely, I find his statement that the post...More precisely, I find his statement that the posthumous books aren't readily discernible from his best work utterly confounding. Maybe it isn't to precisely the sort of reader he is chastising, but it really should be to him. I'm tempted to say it's dishonest, but I'm not 100% sold on that.Zachariah Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239657309427202553.post-78881007110656265922012-10-14T20:58:19.228-04:002012-10-14T20:58:19.228-04:00That is a good essay. I agree with about 75% of it...That is a good essay. I agree with about 75% of it. A few years back, it would have been closer to 95% of it. But that's largely because I suspected my own enthusiasm for certain Bukowski books was juvenile. I've since revised that opinion. This isn't the first time I've found Kirsch to be a forcefully persuasive unreliable narrator. He also makes some serious mistakes--of fact, not just of opinion--about Bishop in The Wounded Surgeon. I think to properly appreciate Buk as a poet, as opposed to as a persona, you have to try and read _Mockingbird Wish Me Luck_ as tho you'd never heard of him. Which is probably as hard as it sounds. Zachariah Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.com