I discovered Bukowski as a gay man in the south having my own addiction problems. ![]() I've never read one that was written in a way I connected with, either they didnt touch my human experience or they were so cloaked in metaphor or allegory that by the time I've processed it - the impact of the emotion has passed. I read Frost, Angelou, Whitman - and its nice, but I have to be assigned them if you want me to finish the book. But I recognize he has no real skill, what he writes are not literary gems, and there is little beauty in his phrasing or creativity in his vocabulary. Though saying that, I am a big Bukowski fan. (Added to that the aesthetic belief you mention as there us an obnoxious portion of the fanbase that use his persona for some image). I've always said Bukowski is the "Non-Poets Poet" and I think it accounts for the big disparity in peoples feelings.
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