{"id":85097,"date":"2023-03-20T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/nick-cave-calls-charles-bukowski-the-bukkake-of-bad-poetry\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:48:16","slug":"nick-cave-calls-charles-bukowski-the-bukkake-of-bad-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/nick-cave-calls-charles-bukowski-the-bukkake-of-bad-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cave calls Charles Bukowski \u201cthe bukkake of bad poetry\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nick-cave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Cave<\/a> has referred to as late poet and novelist Charles Bukowski \u201cthe bukkake of bad poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/this-much-i-know-to-be-true-review-nick-cave-warren-ellis-3221300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>This Much I Know To Be True<\/em>\u00a0evaluation: an engrossing and intimate portrait of Nick Cave<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cave was responding to a touch upon his <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theredhandfiles.com\/dont-have-time-to-do-your-red-hand-file\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Hand Files<\/a><\/em> weblog, through which a fan wrote: \u201cNo question, a statement instead. In my opinion you are one of the bonzerist geezers around, like Bukowski with a geetar. Thank you Mr. Cave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Bad Seeds<\/a> singer responded by saying that he doesn\u2019t like being in comparison with Bukowski: \u201cI appreciate you were trying to be kind and make me feel good and everything but I don\u2019t like the man. This a well known fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cNow, if you had called me, say, the \u2018Philip Larkin of the Joanna\u2019 or the \u2018Stevie Smith of the Ivories\u2019 or the \u2018All Singing, All Dancing John Berryman\u2019 or \u2018Langston Hughes of the Banger\u2019, I\u2019d be lot happier. But, I don\u2019t know, Simon, I just don\u2019t like Charles Bukowski. In my opinion, Charles Bukowski is the \u2018Bukkake of Bad Poetry\u2019, just blowing his junk around. I don\u2019t like him. I just don\u2019t. Not even a bit. No, not at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds observe \u2018We Call Upon The Author\u2019, Cave famously sings: \u201c<em>Prolix! Prolix! \/ Something a pair of scissors can fix \/ Bukowski was a jerk! \/ Berryman was best!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"4ABm2-cUahQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds - We Call Upon The Author (Live at St Luke&#039;s, London) Pro-shot\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ABm2-cUahQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the lyrics to \u2018We Call Upon The Author\u2019, Cave has made his emotions on Bukowski clear over time. In one other <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theredhandfiles.com\/people-who-tell-them-to-read-bukowski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Hand Files<\/a><\/em> put up from 2021, a fan wrote: \u201cIn a Rolling Stone interview I read you said \u2018They should stop reading Bukowski, and they should stop listening to people who tell them to read Bukowski\u2019\u2026I always wonder why you consider him like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cave replied, noting that he didn\u2019t have an issue with Bukowski, \u201cother than I think his poetry sucks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cHe as soon as mentioned, poetry was \u2018like taking a shit, you smell it and then flush it away \u2026 writing is all about leaving behind as much a stink as possible\u2019, which is all very properly, besides I believe he was making use of this to all poetry when he ought to have been making use of it to his personal poetry completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis poems are indeed do-do \u2013 silly shit \u2013 and cloyingly sentimental about his own place in a world he held in absolute contempt. His is a particular view of humanity as abjection which I find difficult to stomach, especially in poetry, beautiful poetry, lover of life and the world that I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Cave was contacted final month by 13-year-old Ruben from Melbourne, Australia, who requested him for steerage on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theredhandfiles.com\/im-13-in-a-world-ridden-with-so-much-hate-and-disconnect-how-do-i-live-life-to-its-absolute-fullest-and-not-waste-my-potential-especially-as-a-creative-also-what-is-a-great-way-to-spiritually\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Red Hand Files<\/em><\/a> weblog on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/nick-cave-shares-advice-to-teenager-on-how-to-live-life-to-the-absolute-fullest-3401997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">easy methods to \u201clive life to the absolute fullest\u201d when there&#8217;s \u201cso much hate and disconnect\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsorb into yourself the world\u2019s full richness and goodness and fun and genius, so that when someone tells you it\u2019s not worth fighting for, you will stick up for it, protect it, run to its defence, because it is your world they\u2019re talking about, then watch that world continue to pour itself into you in gratitude,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little smart vampire full of raging love, amazed by the world \u2013 that will be you, my young friend, the earth shaking at your feet. 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