Now, let’s be clear about something: this is not a tastemaking call to arms to start hating Bukowski. As the literary theorist Roland Barthes once said, “We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the message of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a … Continue reading “‘Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today’: The Poem That Gave Birth to Bukowski’s Introspective Platitudes”