The database lists this issue with its four poems, but there's a lot more Buk
in it, so here are the full contents and details.
Transit No 6, Mid Summer 1994
Editor: Kevin Ring
Cover photo of Buk by Linda Lee Bukowski
Contents:
- 40,000 (poem)
- somebody knocking (poem)
- Hank and the Bluebird: article by Kevin Ring on Buk and Beat Scene. It quotes
several of Buk's letters to him (incl. June 16, 1990 and June 1991) and the
opening of "The Bluebird".
- In the Shadow of the Computer: piece on In the Shadow of the Rose (Black
Sparrow, 1991), apparently from the Black Sparrow press release, quoting a
few lines from "my first computer poem".
- Charles Bukowski: Outsider Looking Out: interview by Kevin Ring, reprinted
from Beat Scene 11 (Autumn 1990).
- Charles Bukowski: Letters to Beat Scene: four letters to Kevin Ring, dated
October 8, 1990; February 9, 1993; June 7, 1991; January 27, 1990.
- my worst rejection slip (poem)
- Buk Obit: Gary Pulsifer (the fuller version of his Guardian obituary of
March 10, 1994)
- so now? (poem)
Notes:
- The letters and the interview aren't in the database yet. The interview isn't
listed under Beat Scene 11 either; the database only has Beat Scene 12 and 20.
- According to Ring, "so now?" came on the morning of the day Buk died: a single sheet in the usual brown envelope, with no letter. Buk died that afternoon.
- "somebody knocking" is still uncollected.
- In the February 9, 1993 letter, Buk gives his very harsh verdict on
Cherkovski's biography Hank.

in it, so here are the full contents and details.
Transit No 6, Mid Summer 1994
Editor: Kevin Ring
Cover photo of Buk by Linda Lee Bukowski
Contents:
- 40,000 (poem)
- somebody knocking (poem)
- Hank and the Bluebird: article by Kevin Ring on Buk and Beat Scene. It quotes
several of Buk's letters to him (incl. June 16, 1990 and June 1991) and the
opening of "The Bluebird".
- In the Shadow of the Computer: piece on In the Shadow of the Rose (Black
Sparrow, 1991), apparently from the Black Sparrow press release, quoting a
few lines from "my first computer poem".
- Charles Bukowski: Outsider Looking Out: interview by Kevin Ring, reprinted
from Beat Scene 11 (Autumn 1990).
- Charles Bukowski: Letters to Beat Scene: four letters to Kevin Ring, dated
October 8, 1990; February 9, 1993; June 7, 1991; January 27, 1990.
- my worst rejection slip (poem)
- Buk Obit: Gary Pulsifer (the fuller version of his Guardian obituary of
March 10, 1994)
- so now? (poem)
Notes:
- The letters and the interview aren't in the database yet. The interview isn't
listed under Beat Scene 11 either; the database only has Beat Scene 12 and 20.
- According to Ring, "so now?" came on the morning of the day Buk died: a single sheet in the usual brown envelope, with no letter. Buk died that afternoon.
- "somebody knocking" is still uncollected.
- In the February 9, 1993 letter, Buk gives his very harsh verdict on
Cherkovski's biography Hank.








