libro de poemas

I take very seriously my career, so is very demanding to read all the bibliography of all the subjects.  Nevertheless, I always try to keep reading literature.  To be honest in this period of the year I don’t have the time to read something on my own. So today I talk about a pending book that I did not manage to finish. This is a poetry book which I don’t remember very well, but is an anthology which the last poems of Bukowski. The most interesting anecdote about this anthology is that was the own Bukowski who decided what poems include in the anthology. I was really enjoying to read him. He is an excellent poet (he is better poet than novelist). These poems are characterized for relate to the death. In these poems we find a different Bukowski who leaving his sordid style away (giving it another connotation to be more specific), show to us the depth and the poverty of the life. The poems we find in this book are heartbreaking for the crudity with Bukowski wrote it.

I think his work as a poet merits a thorough reading, an analytical reading. Is not enough reading from the pure emotion or from the identification with the situations he relates.  It is important to establish a distance between the poems and the reader.