{"id":1874,"date":"2009-06-11T20:51:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T03:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2009-06-11T20:51:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T03:51:42","slug":"charles-bukowski-meets-another-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/06\/11\/charles-bukowski-meets-another-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bukowski Meets Another Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1873\" title=\"bukowski\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bukowski.gif\" alt=\"bukowski\" width=\"190\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bukowski.gif 316w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bukowski-199x300.gif 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2009\/06\/unpublished-foreword-to-william-wantling%E2%80%99s-7-on-style-circa-1974-2\/\"><em>The Rumpus<\/em> has a piece<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Bukowski\"><em>Charles Bukowski<\/em><\/a> wrote as a forward to a book of poems by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Wantling\"><em>William Wantling<\/em><\/a> in 1974.\u00a0 He writes about meeting the other poet for the first time and liking him.\u00a0 It must have been a big thing to be liked by Bukowski because he seems to have a problem with most people.\u00a0 His piece is touching and shows how sensitive Bukowski really was to the unspoken things.<\/p>\n<p>He writes a bit about style and says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Style means no shield at all.<br \/>\nStyle means no front at all.<br \/>\nStyle means ultimate naturalness.<br \/>\nStyle means one man alone with billions of men about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is that really it?\u00a0 Boy, Bukowski would have hated me to the ends of his toes because I&#8217;m always arguing my point.\u00a0 The problem I have with what he&#8217;s saying there is that he made a living by writing with the biggest shield of all in front of him.\u00a0 A bottle.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the best shield there is.\u00a0 Bullet-proof.\u00a0 So he must be wrong about style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rumpus has a piece that Charles Bukowski wrote as a forward to a book of poems by William Wantling in 1974.\u00a0 He writes about meeting the other poet for the first time and liking him.\u00a0 It must have been a big thing to be liked by Bukowski because he seems to have a problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,148],"tags":[468,469],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-poetry","tag-charles-bukowski","tag-william-wantling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}