Recommend me some poets that are as raw and exciting as Bukowski

Recommend me some poets that are as raw and exciting as Bukowski.

When I read a Bukowski poem it's like a shot of adrenaline and inspiration straight into my bloodstream. It's really amazing.

Who are some poets or writers who do this for you?

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Prepare your ass, OP.

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Yeah I know.
I honestly don't give a shit about Bukowski's personality or his cult following.
I just like his poems. I enjoy reading them, is that so bad?

i was first introduced to bukowski through his novels, which i really liked for the most part.

then a couple of years ago i bought a big collection of his poems, "the pleasures of the damned". and i was a little surprised to find that around 95% of them were basic, obvious, cringey junk.

some of the 5% are good, some of them particularly so. but overall it was a massive disappointment.

Doesn't his poem just get your blood pumping though?
Show Biz

I can't have it
and you can't have it
and we won't
get it

so don't bet on it
or even think about
it

just get out of bed
each morning

wash
shave
clothe
yourself
and go out into
it

because
outside of that
all that's left is
suicide and
madness

so you just
can't
expect too much

you can't even
expect

so what you do
is
work from a modest
minimal
base

like when you
walk outside
be glad your car
might possibly
be there

and if it is-
that the tires
aren't
flat

then you get
in
and if it
starts--you
start.

and
it's the damndest
movie
you've ever
seen
because
you're
in it--

low budget
and
4 billion
critics

and the longest
run
you ever hope
for
is

one
day.

no, just feels too obvious and isn't saying anything hugely interesting, and doesn't have enough of a poetic flowy tanginess to it to make up for where it lacks in other areas.

let me look for one i like, hold on

He seems to be talking to Shakespeare here.

From the tempest:
"
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep"

And from Macbeth:
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more"

And As You Like It:

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts"

Just as Shakespeare often compared life to a play, Bumowski is comparing it to a movie

this is literally as bad as anything rupi kapur hhas written

>Just as Shakespeare often compared life to a play, Bumowski is comparing it to a movie
is this b8?