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Ham on Rye: An Excerpt

By: Asha Seth October 25, 2018March 16, 2023

Book QuotesAmerican Literature, Amreading, books, Books on reading, Charles Bukowski, Classics, Coming of Age, Excerpts, Fiction, Ham on Rye, Henry Chinaski, reading, Women17 Comments

I read all the books by D. H. And they led to others. To H. D., the poetess. And Huxley, the youngest of the Huxleys, Lawrence’s friend. It all came rushing at me. One book led to the next. Dos Passos came along. Not too good, really, but good enough. His trilogy, about the U.S.A., took…

As the poems go…

By: Asha Seth October 14, 2017January 13, 2022

PoetryAs the poems go, Blogging, Charles Bukowski, Poems, Poetry, Poets, words, Writing73 Comments

As the poems go into the thousands you realize that you’ve created very little. It comes down to the rain, the sunlight, the traffic, the nights and the days of the years, the faces. Leaving this will be easier than living it, typing one more line now as a man plays a piano through the…

So You Want To Be A Writer?

By: Asha Seth July 15, 2017January 13, 2022

PoetryCharles Bukowski, Poetry, writer's life, Writers, Writers Resources, Writing77 Comments

If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. If you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words,…

But Don’t Write Poetry by Charles Bukowski

By: Asha Seth February 3, 2017June 3, 2020

PoetryCharles Bukowski, Creative Writing, dreams, Favorite Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, readers, reading, Vocation, Writers, Writing118 Comments

Go to Tibet Ride a camel. Read the bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a beard. Circle the world in a paper canoe. Subscribe to The Saturday Evening Post. Chew on the left side of your mouth only. Marry a woman with one leg and shave with a straight razor. And carve your name in…