This issue of Amelia carries Bukowski's complete twelve-poem "Dark Night Poem" sequence (#1–#12).
From checking the database it looks like nine of them appear nowhere else. Uncollected, with no book, no manuscript, and no other magazine appearance on record.
Dark Night Poem #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8, #9, #10
Two are in "On Drinking" (2019) — Abel Debritto's magazine-sourced collection — which drew them from here: #6 (db #967) and #11 (db #961). This issue is the original printing.
#12 (db #962) has a manuscript dated 22 Nov 1985; it's flagged collected in the database, though no book is recorded against it.
So of the twelve, nine have been effectively unpublished since 1986 — no reprint, no manuscript, nothing but this issue. Scans attached.
Two small notes for the database folks:
- #11 (#961) is marked `collected: no but appears in On Drinking (2019) — the flag looks out of date.
- #12 (#962) is marked `collected: yes` with no book recorded — worth a look at what it's collected in, if anything.
Corrections welcome.
From checking the database it looks like nine of them appear nowhere else. Uncollected, with no book, no manuscript, and no other magazine appearance on record.
Dark Night Poem #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8, #9, #10
Two are in "On Drinking" (2019) — Abel Debritto's magazine-sourced collection — which drew them from here: #6 (db #967) and #11 (db #961). This issue is the original printing.
#12 (db #962) has a manuscript dated 22 Nov 1985; it's flagged collected in the database, though no book is recorded against it.
So of the twelve, nine have been effectively unpublished since 1986 — no reprint, no manuscript, nothing but this issue. Scans attached.
Two small notes for the database folks:
- #11 (#961) is marked `collected: no but appears in On Drinking (2019) — the flag looks out of date.
- #12 (#962) is marked `collected: yes` with no book recorded — worth a look at what it's collected in, if anything.
Corrections welcome.
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