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Re: your poetry issue (Book World, April 20). The poets that seem to interest you strike me as marginalized or unpopular. I searched through the issue and couldn't find mention of my favorite. His books take up a good part of the poetry shelves in any book store. People love him.
I'm talking, of course, about Charles Bukowski, who is no self-conscious poet, waxing on about daffodils, using Latin phrases and otherwise doing his best to obscure the meaning of words.
As Buk said, the point is
to loosen up, humanize, relax,
and still make as real as possible
the word on the page, the word should be like
butter or avocados or
steak or hot biscuits, or onion rings or
whatever is really
needed. it should be almost
as if you could pick up the words and
eat them.
