This one has been collected but not by Black Sparrow. I post it for the edification and enlightenment of those who have wasted their energies damning Martin for his supposed revisions to Bukowski's work.
Here we have a poem published in 1961 in San Francisco Review No. 8 (on the left). It next appeared just one year later in Longshot Pomes for Broke Players. Some significant edits were made. Entire lines were expunged. Punctuation was altered. Some of the line breaks are different. This took place long before Bukowski was a gleam in Martin's eye.
Undoubtedly, this isn't the only pre-Black Sparrow instance where Bukowski's work was significantly altered. My point is that it is unfair and, more importantly, an irrelevant waste of time, to make Martin a whippin' boy for there being more than one version of any one poem floating around out there. Fair or not, it seems it was standard operating procedure. To my knowledge, Bukowski raised only one objection with Martin's editing and that was with Women. One objection in almost 30 years. An acceptable ratio.
Here we have a poem published in 1961 in San Francisco Review No. 8 (on the left). It next appeared just one year later in Longshot Pomes for Broke Players. Some significant edits were made. Entire lines were expunged. Punctuation was altered. Some of the line breaks are different. This took place long before Bukowski was a gleam in Martin's eye.
Undoubtedly, this isn't the only pre-Black Sparrow instance where Bukowski's work was significantly altered. My point is that it is unfair and, more importantly, an irrelevant waste of time, to make Martin a whippin' boy for there being more than one version of any one poem floating around out there. Fair or not, it seems it was standard operating procedure. To my knowledge, Bukowski raised only one objection with Martin's editing and that was with Women. One objection in almost 30 years. An acceptable ratio.