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nicoleipi 's review for:
Love Is a Dog from Hell
by Charles Bukowski
the poems are rather filthy. very stream-of-consciousness, very "this is my life, i have a lot of sex, i objectify a lot of women, i'm basically a pedophile, if don't like, don't read."
he's from the 70's, his poetry didn't age well, some of his lines are extremely problematic, etc. etc.
i was in a poetry mood and i picked his collection up because i got it for $1.27 second-hand. if i'd purposefully begun reading to see the point of view of a misogynistic drunkard going through his mid-life crisis, then i would've gotten what i came for. his point of view is gritty and uncomfortable.
i'm really conflicted. is it possible to separate the writer from his writing? even if his opinions are explicitly incorporated in his writing?
does it matter what the author truly did or think? why is the reception different when it's only a character (that the author doesn't condone) who has a problematic point of view and not the author themselves? wouldn't the knowledge gained still be the same?
1 star because stylistically, the poems are rather lazy. there's a rare few lines that are nice tho.
"do you realize/that if I were an adding machine/I might break down/tabulating"
he's from the 70's, his poetry didn't age well, some of his lines are extremely problematic, etc. etc.
i was in a poetry mood and i picked his collection up because i got it for $1.27 second-hand. if i'd purposefully begun reading to see the point of view of a misogynistic drunkard going through his mid-life crisis, then i would've gotten what i came for. his point of view is gritty and uncomfortable.
i'm really conflicted. is it possible to separate the writer from his writing? even if his opinions are explicitly incorporated in his writing?
does it matter what the author truly did or think? why is the reception different when it's only a character (that the author doesn't condone) who has a problematic point of view and not the author themselves? wouldn't the knowledge gained still be the same?
1 star because stylistically, the poems are rather lazy. there's a rare few lines that are nice tho.
"do you realize/that if I were an adding machine/I might break down/tabulating"