sifting through the madness for the word the line the way

Here are the 10 Bukowski poems from Sisyphus Leaves. This chap, which is getting really hard to come by, also featured Richmond and Goodwin. It was printed in 1992 -- I think Goodwin was the publisher. I’m placing it in “First Appearances” but some of the poems may still be uncollected.

Side-by-side comparison scans from version in Rant #1 (Spring 1993) and posthumous version in Sifting Through the Madness... (2003).

A book of poems, essays and stories about the riots following the Rodney King verdict entitled The Verdict Is In has a Bukowski poem "the riots" (p. 74) which follows: Changed in Sifting Through the Madness (2003), p. 165: The chances seem to me to be exactly zero that Bukowski would have...

I wasn't going to post any more of these for a while, but this one is just too painfully ironic to let it slide by. let's hope we can all recover from this. Amen.

Does someone own a copy of New York Quarterly - No. 37 - 1988 and want to look this poem has been martinized in Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way - pg. 181 - 2002 ? Thanks!

I would like to dedicate this one to my close friend and personal inspiration, Mr. John Martin! so you want to be a writer

New game: find the butcher! A stanza from a manuscript: all breathing tissue must be used against the impossible A stanza from the same poem in a posthumous book: all facial tissue and toilet paper must be used again and again if possible. Okay, now find the butcher! Go. See you on the...