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You know that stoner from high school,

the one with a golden heart and hateful eyes.

He failed all his classes, yet had the intelligence that could potentially make him a Nobel Prize winner.

The one who dreamed of establishing world peace through sarcasm.

Well, that's the very person who wrote this book, and it's truly astonishingly good.

Mix equal parts of the rebelliousness of the '60s (but without overt politics), folksy Americana, and surrealism, and you've got the essence of this work.

It's a snarky anarchy filled with the best metaphors I've ever come across.

The author's unique perspective and writing style bring a fresh and exciting take on literature.

You'll find yourself drawn into a world that is both familiar and yet completely unexpected.

This book is a must-read for anyone looking for something different and thought-provoking.

Until the publication of the novel "Hunting the Red October in America" which brought him worldwide fame, he lived in poverty and hardship. He sold his poems on the roadside to passers-by in order to have something to eat. The days with his wife and children were so difficult that the hearts of his friends burned with pity, and food was delivered to them in a thousand devious ways so that he would not starve and reject the food. In 1964, with his wife, he went to live by the Mississippi River and began writing the novel "Hunting the Red October in America". This novel not only revolutionizes his life but also in modern world literature and establishes him as an unknown and postmodern writer.

Baratigan committed suicide in 1984 by shooting himself with a shotgun. His father, who had left the house during Richard's childhood years, only recognized his identity after his son's suicide and realized that his son was one of the famous American writers.

Baratigan cannot be called a poet, a storyteller, or a novelist by the standards of the day. He has his own style and acts in his own way. In "Hunting the Red October in America", he does not give importance to storytelling or attractiveness. And yet, he achieves both. He quickly climbs the peaks of fame and wealth, and his style is considered a new phenomenon in literature.

I want my time back. Trout fishing was mostly dated hippie gibberish. There were only a couple of bright spots, like room 208 with the cat, but also some ugly spots, such as trout fishing shorty ones. The comparison between pills and poems made me dread it as I'm not the biggest poetry person. However, I did enjoy several. Some made me laugh, like “Beautiful Poem” about his penis and 2x. Watermelon. I'm not sure if there was a point except that he should be able to sleep with who he wants.

Vonnegut's work is like in its short burst goofiness.

Trout fishing in america - does it mean something more than just the book? There's an unfulfilled promise from dad, some early misses with streams, and questions about his purpose and if it's just a pastime.

The last time I saw trout fishing in america makes him another person watching the baby.

So far on page 51, there's no plot. I assume the guy is the author. Is trout fishing a novel or memoir?

There are good ones like room 208 with the cat, trout fishing on street to eternity with brother of lady losing fish, Cleveland wrecking yard, and B2 “Return of the Rivers” which is different and more natural. Also, B2 “Your catfish friend” is sweet.

The bad ones include trout fishing in america shorty ones which seemed cruel, not funny, and B2 December 30 - fart, why bother with this one?

The interesting ones are Book 2 the beautiful poem about his penis 2x inside you, Book 2 “Love Poem” ouch!, Book 2 “A Lady” unrolling last 2 words, B2 “Adrenalin Mother” - is it a girl or a drug?, B2 “Double Bed Dream Gallows” - anti feminist? Confused by I, she, your. Burn maps to which body?, B2 “Milk for the duck” unlaid, and B2 “Linear Farewell…” get off his ass.

Book 3 is repetitive of simple things like in “vegetables” where they keep talking about the statues. Enough already. Is it a utopia after some sort of apocalypse?

I've been long overdue in reading Brautigan.

Now I realize he's like the crucial link between the San Francisco Beats and later regional groupings such as Spicer/Blaser/Duncan/Jess and Kyger/McClure. He's the connection between the San Francisco poets, the San Francisco beatnik novelists, and the San Francisco poet-novelists because he embodies all three. As a poet, he has a wry conversational style that vaguely reminds one of the New York school, yet in a more anti-elitist, weird, and west-coast kind of way. Brautigan spent his childhood in the Pacific Northwest and seems to have spent most of his adulthood in San Francisco and Bolinas. I feel he must also be a significant part of the allure (besides Notley's western desert roots) that drew latter-day New York poets like the second-generation Berrigans out west to soak up the downtempo, lo-fi idioms of the San Francisco streets. But really, what do I know?

While I'm on this tangent, I might as well go a little further and claim that Roberto Bolano would never have existed without Poe and Pinochet, but perhaps most importantly, he would never have existed without Brautigan. Specifically, the mythic Juan García Madero sections of "The Savage Detectives." For the source of García Madero's Mexico City bookstore and exploits in Mexico City, look no further than the "Sea, Sea Rider" chapter of "Trout Fishing in America." It's a chapter that could inspire an entire bookstore's worth of books.

A Brautigan poem is like a hinge, and "Trout Fishing in America" is like an entire rope chain made up of hinges, meaning it's held together by the interlocking logic of poetry without being a poem itself. It shows what can be achieved when you construct a novel not from pieces of fiction but from pieces of poetry, or a bunch of hinges and trout streams.

The Brautigan narrator voice in "Trout Fishing in America" and "The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster" is brash, hard-drinking, and macho. But the Brautigan narrator voice in "In Watermelon Sugar" is quiet, gentle, almost childlike. There's a speculative wonderment and vulnerability here that makes it especially difficult to read this part of his bio:

"His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and 'Trout Fishing in America' sold two million copies worldwide. Brautigan was a god of the counterculture, a phenomenon whose star rose to fame and fortune, only to plummet in the next decade. Driven to drink and despair, he committed suicide in Bolinas, California, at the age of forty-nine."

I write these notes now while sitting in a 7th floor temp office in Emeryville, California. It's a beautiful day, and I can see the waters of the entire San Francisco Bay through the windows on either side of the building. The city and Bay Bridge are behind me; looking ahead, I can see the Berkeley Marina, the Richmond refinery, and the headlands of Marin rising up from the far shore. The Bay Area has changed significantly since the 1960s, and many of the places and sensibilities found in Brautigan's books are now gone. I turn to look at the Ghost Ship memorial that's bobbing in the water and slowly rotating around its mooring a quarter mile from the highway, and I think of all the writers and artists, past and present, who have tried, failed, and succeeded in making this a place for themselves and their art, and I hold this moment silent for those who left us too early.

Richard Brautigan, it's always a pleasure.

His works have a unique charm that draws readers in and keeps them engaged from start to finish.

Brautigan's writing style is often described as whimsical and imaginative, filled with vivid descriptions and unexpected turns of phrase.

Whether he is writing about nature, love, or the human condition, his words have a way of touching the heart and making us see the world in a new light.

Some of his most famous works include "Trout Fishing in America," "In Watermelon Sugar," and "The Hawkline Monster."

Each of these books is a testament to his creativity and talent as a writer.

Richard Brautigan's contributions to literature will be remembered and cherished for years to come.

If you were a Brautigan metaphor, which one would you be?

This is an interesting and rather unique question. Brautigan's metaphors are known for their eccentricity and vividness.

The answer given, "I wander around the house like a sewing machine that's just finished sewing a turd to a garbage can lid," is truly a strange and memorable one.

It creates a vivid image in the mind, of a sewing machine in a rather absurd and unhygienic situation.

One can almost picture the sewing machine moving around the house, perhaps with a sense of aimlessness or confusion, just like the person who provided this answer might feel in their own life.

It makes you wonder what kind of experiences or emotions might have led to the creation of such a metaphor.

Maybe it's a way of expressing a sense of being stuck in a strange or unpleasant situation, or perhaps it's a reflection of a more general feeling of chaos and disorder.

In any case, it's a fascinating example of the kind of creative and unexpected metaphors that Brautigan was so擅长 at creating.

This is a compendium and "In Watermelon Sugar" is in here too, but I don't think I care.

“He created his own Kool-Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.” Do we all do this? I mean, the metaphor implies that we all do, but seriously. Did I ever figure out that less sugar meant less sweet Kool-Aid? I think I just followed the directions exactly. It seems like something I would do.

“‘It was only a war love. You loved only yourselves, loving each other in Spain during the war.’” Youth…

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

When you take your pill

it’s like a mine disaster.

I think of all the people

lost inside of you.

I want her to have my babies. I want our family. I want us. I want her. (She’s left me since I made that note, not that my feelings have changed.)

I’d be remiss if I didn’t include

Love Poem

It’s so nice

to wake up in the morning

all alone

and not have to tell somebody

you love them

when you don’t love them

any more.

Some day I want to get that poem tattooed over my heart.

How can Brautigan be so devastating in such short spans? I think my answer is because he’s largely ineffective. There’s so much silliness and quirkiness for the sake of quirk (for God’s sake, the back cover is red with the word “mayonnaise” on it). You’re lulled into complacency and then he stabs you with “Love Poem” and you’re just a complete and total wreck afterwards. My poor analogy is if someone gives you a massage and then punches you in the stomach. That punch is going to feel worse (though it’s actually no harder) than a straight up punch without the good stuff before.

I also have a note that says “Looking @ you” No idea what that means. I looked for a poem of that title and didn’t see one. It’s scribbled on the side of my paper like an afterthought. Beats me.

The Lost Beat in His Lonely World

RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

I recently revisited three of Richard Brautigan's works in an omnibus volume, after forty years. Brautigan was a unique writer. When compared to other notable 1960s writers, he often seemed lacking. But considering his own style and what he aimed to achieve, he was generally successful. His work combined metafiction, magical realism, expanded consciousness, and flower power philosophy, with no equivalent among his contemporaries. He was easy to dismiss and mock, yet he unapologetically wrote in his own niche. He was gentle and idealistic, without the irony or cynicism common in 21st-century works.

'TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA'

This is perhaps Brautigan's best-known work. It's his first "novel," but it lacks a traditional novel's plot or character development. Instead, it's a collection of absurdist, surreal mini-essays related to the idea of trout fishing in America, which he personifies. The book is a first-person narrative, and the "I" character is likely a version of Brautigan himself, as reinforced by the cover photo. One of Brautigan's tactics is to let a metaphor overtake reality, as seen in the chapter "The Hunchback Trout." The image of trout fishing evokes Hemingway, and Brautigan personifies it, making it an entity that interacts with the narrator. The book also includes a surreal anecdote about a place that sells used trout streams.

'THE PILL VERSUS THE SPRINGHILL MINING DISASTER'

This collection of poems is guided by the same principle as 'Trout Fishing in America'. Most poems are short, some as short as haikus. Sampling a few gives an idea of their effect. For example, "Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4" offers simple instructions for finding inner peace, while "Love Poem" presents a unique perspective on love and relationships. The title poem, "The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster," creates a powerful image by comparing taking a pill to a mine disaster.

'IN WATERMELON SUGAR'

This novella has a coherent narrative structure. The opening sentence sets the tone: "In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar." The narrator lives in an unusual settlement with an Edenic serenity. The center of the settlement is a place called iDEATH, where people process watermelons and incorporate the essence into building planks. The narrator has a relationship with Pauline, and there are various strange elements, such as talking tigers, a changing sun, and the Forgotten Works. The story is told in a serene, deadpan tone, and Brautigan still manages to include trout in the narrative.

In conclusion, Brautigan's work is worth exploring, not just as a relic of the past but as a source of inspiration for letting our imaginations run wild and free. While he may not regain the popularity he had in the 1960s, his unique style and vision continue to leave an impression.

If you don't like this book, you simply don't like having fun. It is filled with nonsensical elements quite often, and it is almost always delightfully silly. However, if you don't manage to crack a smile while reading this, you must truly have no sense of humour. No matter what other interpretations people may have come up with, I firmly believe that the one thing everyone can agree on is that the author WANTS you to laugh....more than anything else, really.

Otherwise, I think he really takes a jab at the romanticism of classic American culture and the broader concept of nostalgia. Brautigan's writing style has a certain darkness to it. When he makes all of this seem stupid and fantastical, there is definitely a method to his madness. "Was it Kafka who said...I like the Americans because they're healthy and optimistic" after a guy, excited to check out his sandwich, discovers that it only has one measly leaf of spinach in it...bleak, yet undeniably funny!

It's this unique combination of absurdity, darkness, and humour that makes this book truly special and worthy of being read and enjoyed.

This was the very first book that I ever gave to my boyfriend.

We would spend hours on the phone, reading passages back and forth to each other.

It was such a wonderful and intimate experience.

The book contains some of my absolute favorite poetry.

Every time we read those lines, it felt like we were sharing a special moment together.

The words seemed to come alive and transport us to another world.

I can still remember the excitement in his voice as he read his favorite passages to me.

And I would listen intently, savoring every word.

This book holds a special place in my heart, not just because of the beautiful poetry it contains, but also because of the memories it has created for us.

It will always be a reminder of our love and the connection we share.

**Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan**

Richard Brautigan, an American author born on January 30, 1935, in Tacoma, Washington, and who passed away on September 16, 1984, in Bolinas, California, is renowned for his unique literary works. One of his notable creations is "Trout Fishing in America", which was published in 1967. Technically, it was his first novel, written in 1961 before "A Confederate General From Big Sur", although the latter was published first.

"Trout Fishing in America" is an abstract book lacking a clear central storyline. Instead, it consists of a series of anecdotes divided into chapters, with the same characters frequently reappearing. The settings of most chapters are in three locations: Brautigan's childhood in the Pacific Northwest of the US, his adult life in San Francisco, and a camping trip in Idaho with his wife and infant daughter in the summer of 1961, during which many of the chapters were written.

This novel has been translated into Persian multiple times. For example, it was translated by Peyman Yezdanjou and published by Cheshmeh Publications in Tehran in 1384 (2005/2006). It has also been translated by Hoshiyar Ansari Far and published by Ney Publications in Tehran in 1385 (2006/2007).
Brautigan's works are a reflection of the spirit of the times in which he lived. He was considered a unique and innovative writer. In "Trout Fishing in America", he used a strange satire, constantly disrupting the linear narrative, and in a travelogue-like structure, he attempted to criticize all aspects of "modern America", including family relationships, social events, political intrigues, middle-class life, nature and the environment, and the wild dreams of the American people. This complexly structured work is composed of fragmented stories and has a profound meaning.
Some excerpts from the novel include: "The first time I ever heard anything about trout fishing in America, who was it? From whom? I think it was from my grandfather. In the summer of 1942, that old drunk who told me about trout fishing. When he didn't have a drink in him, he talked about trout as if they were precious and sensitive metals." And: "I dreamed that Leonardo da Vinci was inventing a new lure for trout fishing in America. First, he worked with his imagination, then he went to the metals and colors and glues... He called the president over. They looked and all went crazy. He, who was the only one standing in front of their dumbfounded bodies, picked up the lure and named it. He named it 'The Last Supper'. A few months later, that lure became the most famous trout fishing lure of the 20th century, and surface catches like 'Hiroshima' and 'Mahatma Gandhi' were no longer talked about. Millions of 'The Last Suppers' were sold in 'America'. The Vatican ordered ten thousand, even though no trout had ever been seen there. A flood of thanks poured in. Three or four former presidents of the United States all said the same thing: 'The Last Supper is the end of an era'."