IT would be a thankless task to try and separate the reality of the flesh & blood and protoplasmic being known as Charles Bukowski from his auto-mythography—recorded in nearly fifty volumes of poetry and prose. It is not my intent, in any case, to try and do so; nor is it my intent to write a biography. My intent is to bring to light as much of the life as is necessary to the writing of a critique and analysis as well as review of the work.
In consideration of “autobiographical fiction” (an oxymoron, I realize) which was Bukowski’s métier, exposition of some of the life is helpful, even necessary to a textual elucidation.
I will elucidate out front: to me, Bukowski, as human being, often approaches likeness of a stinking bag of human shit. I am not, however, dwelling here on the personal but on a critical approach, primarily, to the work. |
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| Wayne F. Burke |
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Wayne F. Burke was born in 1954 to Claire Burke nee Kelly and Edward W. Burke. He was raised in the home of his paternal grandparents, as were his three siblings. His grandfather owned and operated BURKE'S INN, a generational business begun previous to the First World War. He attended public schools and after graduating High School, four institutions of higher learning before graduating from Goddard College in 1979 (RUP). After traveling and working a wide variety of jobs he settled himself in the central Vermont area, USA, and has remained since. His first full-length poetry collection was published when he was fifty-eight years old. Six more publications have followed, with an eighth book, BLACK SUMMER, New & Selected Poems, soon to follow.
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