I'll do my part. I'm going to take my new copy of Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way and match it to the manuscripts and mark up my copy, make a video for Amazon review and physically show the extent of the changes so that people will be less inclined to buy it...
A dim glimmer of hope could be the day, if ever, Library of America compiles Buk's poems like they recently did with Kerouac and publishes a 'collected poems' edition. A caring editor would then match the poems, not to a previous publication, but to the corrected typescript from the author.
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