Nick Cave calls Charles Bukowski “the bukkake of bad poetry”
nme.comNick Cave has called late poet and novelist Charles Bukowski “the bukkake of bad poetry.”Cave was responding to a comment on his Red Hand Files blog, in which a fan wrote: “No question, a statement instead.
In my opinion you are one of the bonzerist geezers around, like Bukowski with a geetar. Thank you Mr. Cave.”The Bad Seeds singer responded by saying that he doesn’t like being compared to Bukowski: “I appreciate you were trying to be kind and make me feel good and everything but I don’t like the man.
This a well known fact.”He continued: “Now, if you had called me, say, the ‘Philip Larkin of the Joanna’ or the ‘Stevie Smith of the Ivories’ or the ‘All Singing, All Dancing John Berryman’ or ‘Langston Hughes of the Banger’, I’d be lot happier.
But, I don’t know, Simon, I just don’t like Charles Bukowski. In my opinion, Charles Bukowski is the ‘Bukkake of Bad Poetry’, just blowing his junk around.
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