cirerita
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A really interesting poem re. who "reworked" Bukowski's poems. It was first published in 1972 and then finally collected in The Pleasures of the Damned as "My atomic stockpile" with a few minor changes, of course. :D
I was just typing up "after the sandstorm" (as published in Sifting...) and the ending was different from the one I remembered. And sure enough, I took a look at the original version ("Kenyon Review, after the sandstorm," published in Wormwood Review in the 80s) and I saw the ending I remembered. As in most cases, the mag version is superior to the book one.
I'm beginning to think most poems -if not all- were reworked for book publication.
I was just typing up "after the sandstorm" (as published in Sifting...) and the ending was different from the one I remembered. And sure enough, I took a look at the original version ("Kenyon Review, after the sandstorm," published in Wormwood Review in the 80s) and I saw the ending I remembered. As in most cases, the mag version is superior to the book one.
I'm beginning to think most poems -if not all- were reworked for book publication.