Which poet is like Bukowski but not as cringy?

Which poet is like Bukowski but not as cringy?

Don't know but I'm actually starting as a Christmas temp at the post office tonight.

>It began as a mistake.

Isn't that sort of his core?
Idk, read Plath, just as trendy with the type of girls like you but more interesting in every aspect

What's cringey about Bukowski?

Lol don't post on this board again

nothing if you're not a 16 yo insecure faggot

He is crude and shallow. His only worth is to give illusions of the muh bohemian lifestyle to edgy teenagers.

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thanks

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So any of you fags can me an answer? Plath is a woman; I know it shouldn't matter, but it does.

Byron was pretty degenerate and hedonist, but I don't know if that's what you're looking for

you might enjoy some of the shorter poems of robinson jeffers. has some of the gritty nature of bukowski but with more of a focus on the natural world.

try hurt hawk to start off

Plath is several tiers above Shitcowski so fuck off :^)

Gerald Locklin

>sigh
kys

could you elaborate? an 18 year old I know is absolutely obsessed with bukowski,why do girls generally like him?

"we like to shower afterwards
(I like the water hotter than she)
and her face is always soft and peaceful
and she’ll watch me first
spread the soap over my balls
lift the balls
squeeze them,
then wash the cock:
“hey, this thing is still hard!”
then get all the hair down there,-
the belly, the back, the neck, the legs,
I grin grin grin,
and then I wash her. . .
first the cunt, I
stand behind her, my cock in the cheeks of her ass
I gently soap up the cunt hairs,
wash there with a soothing motion,
I linger perhaps longer than necessary,
then I get the backs of the legs, the ass,
the back, the neck, I turn her, kiss her,
soap up the breasts, get them and the belly, the neck,
the fronts of the legs, the ankles, the feet,
and then the cunt, once more, for luck. . .
another kiss, and she gets out first,
toweling, sometimes singing while I stay in
turn the water on hotter
feeling the good times of love’s miracle
I then get out. . .
it is usually mid-afternoon and quiet,
and getting dressed we talk about what else
there might be to do,
but being together solves most of it
for as long as those things stay solved
in the history of women and
man, it’s different for each-
for me, it’s splendid enough to remember
past the memories of pain and defeat and unhappiness:
when you take it away
do it slowly and easily
make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in
my life, amen"

I genuinely love that opening.

>poet
>not cringy
pick 1

>not as cringy?
ham on rye didnt seem cringy, his interviews are pretty bad tho.

Jesus, people actually read such nonsense?

not really. most people who like bukowski dont read.

Half the Tumblr accounts linked in Veeky Forums have a bukowksi appearance

Bukowski is the meme of poetry for plebes like DFW is the meme on lit.

Very few people actually venture into poetry and explore.

Also bukowski cultivated an image of being some sleazy alcoholic that appeals to boring people who think that's interesting.

>Bukowski is the meme of poetry for plebes like DFW is the meme on lit

As for meme status, yes. But DFW isn't trash, he's just overrated.

Bukowski had some decent stuff, but he obviously went for quantity over quality. Out of every collection I've read there were only a few that actually should have seen print, if that. The earlier collections are the best, but every poem about writing poems is automatically shit. Getting into him is a phase that anyone in their teens/early 20's goes through when they start reading poetry only because it's so accessible.

I won't give any specific recommendations, but buy this collection. If you can't find a poet you like in here then I don't know what to tell you.

I was just about to rec this. The Portable Beat Reader and City Lights Pocket Anthology are also decent collections of poetry similar to Bukowski's style.