Fedi’s Reviews > Love Is a Dog from Hell > Status Update

I will grateful when the book is over and the poems are less miserable in a demeaning kind of way. I am all for miserable poetry but not into the diminishing kind when it becomes a lot. Maybe I should just read some at a time. I like "an unkind poem" and some others as well. Maybe this is what actual misery makes you write? I don't know. You could really tell Scarlet or whatever the redhead's nee really hurt him tho.

I started reading this at the same time as other books because I thought it would be chill to read a couple of poems every once in a while and work my way through this long collection. I don't usually read big collections of poetry, so I don't know what I was thinking. Especially when I read every other poem 3 or 5 times because I like it or dislike it so much.

People are recommending this and I am not sure how I feel about it as I read it. At times I love it, other times I hate it, but then I love that it evoked that kind of hatred and discomfort in me. For some reasons, this poetry feels comfortable in its rawness and I like that I enjoy reading that. I am not sure if Bukowski is an actual dickhead or not, but I hope that his writing is ironic for I am enjoying the irony.