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Been reading about the extensive edits that were made to his posthumously published collections.

https://mjpbooks.com/blog/the-senseless-tragic-rape-of-charles-bukowskis-ghost-by-john-martins-black-sparrow-press/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/charles-bukowskis-posthumous-poetry-as-the-spirit-wanes-shit-happens/
https://alexanderadamsart.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/changes-to-posthumously-published-poems-by-charles-bukowski/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/bukowksis-poems-were-mangled-by-editors-after-his-death-now-you-can-read-his-originals

>>7084434
>I think when I read this poem from another "unreleased" collection of his that I just gave up on the hack

Those posthumous collections have been heavily edited and changed from what Bukowski wrote. Not that his real poems are the greatest, but they're at least better than the edited ones.

http://mjpbooks.com/blog/the-senseless-tragic-rape-of-charles-bukowskis-ghost-by-john-martins-black-sparrow-press/