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Cominciò per sbaglio è l’incipit di questo breve romanzo (tutti i romanzi di Bukowski sono brevi) che è l’esordio narrativo di Bukowski (1971) ed è il mio primo incontro con lui. he got his little playbag and the rubber wraparound for the arm and he squeezed the ball and the rubber inflated La differenza tra dittatura e democrazia è che in democrazia prima si vota e poi si prendono ordini, in dittatura non dobbiamo sprecare il nostro tempo andando a votare. When job hunting, "The first place smelled like work, so I took the second" and much of the humour comes from work, especially satirising the bureaucracy of the post office supervisors and colleagues who are variously incompetent, sadistic and playing the system.

In 2002 English composer and jazz pianist Roland Perrin set six of Bukowski's poems for choir and big band in his work 'songs from the cage' which was commissioned by Hertfordshire Chorus and first performed in April 2002 During one christmas season, after hearing from a drunk that the Post Office would hire "damned near anybody to deliver the mail", Hank applies and is successful at securing a delivery job as a temp. Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner mentions Bukowski in the song "She Looks Like Fun", from the album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Bukowski also performed live readings of his works, beginning in 1962 on radio station KPFK in Los Angeles and increasing in frequency through the 1970s. Drinking was often a featured part of the readings, along with a combative banter with the audience. [36] Bukowski could also be generous; for example, after a sold-out show at Amazingrace Coffeehouse in Evanston, Illinois, on November 18, 1975, he signed and illustrated over 100 copies of his poem "Winter," published by No Mountains Poetry Project. By the late 1970s, Bukowski's income was sufficient to give up live readings. Harry Styles stopped One Direction concerts to read Bukowski in 2014. [44] He later quoted "Old Man, Dead in a Room" in his song "Woman," [45] and opened his 2021 Love on Tour shows with a quote from "Style". [46]a b c d e f Charlson, David (July 6, 2006). Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast. Trafford Publishing. p.30. ISBN 1-4120-5966-6. Bukowski's poem "Let It Enfold You", published in Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories (1996), [50] influenced the emotional 2004 Senses Fail song (and album) of the same name. [51]

His family moved to Mid-City, Los Angeles, [16] in 1930. [10] [15] Bukowski's father was often unemployed. In the autobiographical Ham on Rye, Bukowski says that, with his mother's acquiescence, his father was frequently abusive, both physically and mentally, beating his son for the smallest imagined offense. [17] [18] He later told an interviewer that his father beat him with a razor strop three times a week from the ages of six to 11 years. He says that it helped his writing, as he came to understand undeserved pain. US heavy metal band W.A.S.P in their 1992 album "The Crimson Idol" used one line of Bukowski's poem, "Some People".Dean refers to Castiel as Bukowski when he suggests in the series Supernatural (S5 episode 22) to get drunk and wait for the end of the world. It’s a good thing a few others didn’t think that way. It’s a good thing Van Gogh didn’t think that way.’ I like hearing about a guy's romantic conquests. Even when they're exaggerated and unbelievable, it's nice to compare notes or just be happy for the guy. a b Jonathan Smith, "'I Never Saw Him Drunk': An Interview With Bukowski's Longtime Publisher," Vice, June 20, 2014. American post-hardcore band Chiodos named their second album after one of Bukowski's books of poetry, Bone Palace Ballet.