Can somebody redpill me om this guy? Read two of his poetry

>>9715840
He's rad as hell but also pretty simple. That means he's popular. That means it's fashionable to hate him.

Don't worry; he's pretty deserving of hate as an individual.

But I still dig him.

He riffed on a defined, existential worldview throughout all of his writing with a peculiar, if a bit selfsame and limited, style. Not bad, not the greatest writer to ever live.

>>9716125
This is a good post.

>>9715840
Do you really think you can handle this redpill, anon? Alrighty ... well, here it is:

Bukowski is a mediocre writer who was promoted by the jewish publishing industry to promote degeneracy and glorify alcoholism. The reason jews champion such people is because they want young white men like yourselves to think this kind of lifestyle is cool in the hopes that you will mimic it. You are less of a threat to the greater jewish power structure as a deadbeat than you are as a white man with a strong identity and noble ambitions who strives to better his community and rid it of the negative influence jews inflict upon it through the promotion of two-bit losers like Charles Bukowski.

(The above applies to the beatniks as well as the 68ers, of course.)

>>9716180
yeah pretty sums my feelings, but worded better.
i read Post Office. It was so bad. So poorly written. Felt like a high school paper that got a bad grade.

Hipster chicks used to compare me to him when I was a sad drunken mess.

>>9716180
thats conspiracy theory.

>>9716202
Glad you agree. Those of us in the older age brackets who grew up without an internet full of redpills had to learn it the hard way. I just don't want more young white men to fall into that trap. Our contemporary literary heroes should not losers like Bukowski.

listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch of crabs in a
bucket?
no, I told him.
well, what happens is that now and then one crab
will climb up on top of the others
and begin to climb toward the top of the bucket,
then, just as he's about to escape
another crab grabs him and pulls him back
down.
really? I asked.
really, he said, and this job is just like that, none
of the others want anybody to get out of
here. that's just the way it is
in the postal service!
I believe you, I said.
just then the supervisor walked up and said,
you fellows were talking.
there is no talking allowed on this
job.
I had been there for eleven and one-half
years.
I got up off my stool and climbed right up the
supervisor
and then I reached up and pulled myself right
out of there.
it was so easy it was unbelievable.
but none of the others followed me.
and after that, whenever I had crab legs
I thought about that place.
I must have thought about that place
maybe 5 or 6 times
before I switched to lobster.

for Bukowski, every line has to hit, has to grab your attention. this is done not necessarily by content but by his use of form and word choice. if he loses your attention for even a second he knows his work will be forgotten.
this style is a direct response to a generation used to instant gratification provided by commercialism - so he strings you along, implying a payoff that's right around the corner, and his ability to do so is valuable to study if you want to understand a more "modern" form of poetry that doesn't rely on antiquated guidelines like literary tradition but on more subconscious rules based on societal etc

>>9716218
People conspire, the tribalist jews who control these industries included. In order to keep you from talking about them conspiring they toss prole-feed terms like "conspiracy theory" down to fools like you so that you will speech-police people like me who are talking about the people actually conspiring.

Stop thinking like a peasant.

>>9716180
Pretty much this. His interviews gives the impression that he was aware of this too. Though maybe not to the (((fullest extent))). I appreciate him because he was a broken man with the urgent need to write. He didn't do it for anyone but himself and he was taken advantage of.

>>9715840
>>9716125 Is quite accurate. I might add that he had a rare flow that makes both his poetry and prose munchable like french fries or potato chips. He was particularly good with dialogue without even trying. And he had a very keen eye for human idiocracy.

Simplicity is not a bad thing. I think he is underrated in many ways, probably because of the iconic "pop" status his work has achieved. His prose is like that of Hemmingway but less pretentious and more clear

>>9716224
I like this interpretation.

M'sir i hope u dont mind if i use that thesis for my undergrad class

>>9717615
good luck m8

Haven't read him, but /lit/ doesn't like him and I deem their opinions are pretty objective. I know that he was a famous banger, and art is the refuge of the lonely, so there's that.

>>9716180
truth desu

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>>9716125
fpbp

>>9715840
>can't tell if i love them or hate them

lol. that IS bukowski.

>>9717975
>but /lit/ doesn't like him and I deem their opinions are pretty objective

wew lad you have a long way to go