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Here's what a full run of Wormwood looks like. It was very difficult to photograph, so this is the best I could do:

Hi tkerenyi: Translation is a very difficult thing. It's one thing to translate a simple essay from English to Spanish or even French, but beyond that, translating poetry is full of problems. This line from Bukowski is classic for him because he is drawing a parallel between how he feels while...

I'd bet every last red cent that this is, you know, one of those, "it was Bukowski" things. Uggh.

That signature looks fine to me, tinux. And Pogue: My copy of Dorbin looks very similar. I always viewed it as a nice representation of the juxaposition of free-form writer and meticulous bibliographer.

It's about time that we actually got back to providing analyses in something close to real time and keeping this board alive. Little detective work like this is going to promote that for me, anyway.

Correct. This shows the correct content for pages 2 and 3 from Wormwood 11 but in the booklet, page 35 (actually not numbered in the booklet) is next to page 2 on that sheet of paper. The material under the solid lines on pages 2 and 3 was added to the flyer; that doesn't appear in the booklet...

I just checked my emails with Christa from 2009 when she helped me assemble my full run and she referred to the Same Old Thing... as an "original flyer (Krumhansl item #11)." So I'm not sure whether she would have been able to shed any light on when those were signed. Mine is unsigned but I...

Hey Trevor: I only understood a few of the words you posted (I'm an organic chemist and drinking water protection guy by trade). Let me put it this way: I trust you, but would like to honor Hannah's wishes. Run with that as you may. I don't think that format/similar look matters at all to me...

The database I found on the wayback machine (see link above that I posted on Thursday) has no search functionality. You can get to the search page but it doesn't pull up anything when you search (probably because it's not linked to the .php files Hannah posted and various related reasons). The...

Thanks Hannah. I think those of us who have been here a long time have some sense of how much work you put into the DB. I know I put a fair bit of my time into pulling together the Wormwood information I sent you and that is just a very small portion of the content, so your effort must have been...

Hey Trevor: I'm really glad to see that you care about this. We'll do what we can to get where we can, and I trust you to help us get wherever that is.

The search allowed exact match and loose match, so that to me implies some form of content search, although it may have just allowed close titles to link to actual titles in the DB.

Here's the main page for the non-forum part of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20240118042235/https://bukowski.net/ I'm able to access old manuscripts and the like (the dropdowns at the top seem to still work), but the DB search doesn't seem to function, which is consistent with what...

I'm not sure if it's an issue of rebuilding or rehosting, but it seems clear that Hannah has no intention of paying to continue the DB. I can't complain about that, as it's a burden that she needn't bear, but I'd be sad to see it just go away. I hope that it's just a matter of transferring the...

That's sad to hear. About 10 years or so ago I purchased his full kit of The Buk/Purdy Letters, including a comb-bound proof and other items. He tossed in a prospectus that he inscribed to me. If I can get a good photo of it, I'll post it (my printer/scanner doesn't work anymore because my...