Vagabond Antolog

Abstract

In Bennet's anthology, The Vagabond the Bukowski influence is indisputable. Bennet, himself, in fact, the publisher-editor of Vagabond, is a poet who Charles Bukowski has a strong personal influence on. Fox's History of American Poetry sums it up:': . . The big influence on America for better or worse - during the whole period of the 1960's and 70's was Charles Bukowski. . . The Beet Revolution heavily tipped poetry techniques in favor of diction and subject populism (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Fer linghetti) and Bukowski took it that one final step into the streets so that it almost became anti-poetry. . ."