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on Bus East by Jack Kerouac, on March 19, 2006
Subtly Conveyed
I often think of Kerouac as a raging scientist sewing body parts together in a dank lab with jarred spleens---but with bleeding adjectives and pickled pentameters instead. He breaks traditional codes and puts things together in a very obscure manner that challenges our generalities of language and conjures a most haunting picture. In Kerouac's work, I sit inside his head starring out of his eyes. He has a vivid way to relate his ponderings. -
on The Crunch by Charles Bukowski, on March 18, 2006
Eloquent Melencholy
I like the simplicity of the lines. Clear concise images that evoke the most. "We are afraid" is extremely thought provoking for me. Lonely, yes, pleading yes, but optimistic under all the filth of reality. I like this especially from Buk, subtle relentless protest really if you look at the last few lines. Gosh. He doesn't have any bounds does he? -
Deliberate Palpitating Fog
One of my personal favorites of Mr. Cummings. It has so much passion and vehemence. This work isn't about celebrities at all, well at least in my opinion. The juxtaposition of Jesus and Buffalo Bill creates a forum in which to discuss grotesque heroism (Buff. Bill) and subtle humility (Jesus). Moreover it's a discussion, or a contention rather on war and peace, war being the buf. bill and the source of hatred here. Of course the really great thing about e.e. is that his work is open to a multitude of interpretations. In any regard this piece carries heft and deserves a second, third, and fourth glance. I think the beauty of Cummings is that his ambiguity and clear images, while seemingly a contradiction of sorts, create a poetic paradox that makes his poems all the more powerful. You know subconsciously that a deluge of emotion is carried in this frank, somewhat sarcastic work.