cirerita
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AK's biblio is pretty good and accurate, if you ask me, though I'm not really big on that kind of bibliographies as they are addressed to a very limited audience. Other Bukowski bibliographies, however, are riddled with errors and citing them without triple-checking their accuracy could be your worst nightmare in the long run... Believe me, I've been there.
Re. the term collected, I think PS is right. It's just the standard way to say something has been published in a book (aka major work, primary publication, you name it). It does not matter if a poem was "printed" in a cave with sticks and stones two thousand years ago; if the contents have been reprinted in a book, then you can say it has been "collected". That's the standard form.
But I do get mjp's point, too. For practical purposes, it is as if that poem in the cave was never "printed" in the first place becase no one saw it besides the artist and his mom... and an archeologist 1999 years later, who was the one who deciced to publish it (again!).
If you're not using standard forms, then I guess it would be a good idea, as PS suggested, to explain that in a little note so scholars (ahem) using the database can understand what's going on.
I mean, if you care about Bukowski scholars ;)
Re. the term collected, I think PS is right. It's just the standard way to say something has been published in a book (aka major work, primary publication, you name it). It does not matter if a poem was "printed" in a cave with sticks and stones two thousand years ago; if the contents have been reprinted in a book, then you can say it has been "collected". That's the standard form.
But I do get mjp's point, too. For practical purposes, it is as if that poem in the cave was never "printed" in the first place becase no one saw it besides the artist and his mom... and an archeologist 1999 years later, who was the one who deciced to publish it (again!).
If you're not using standard forms, then I guess it would be a good idea, as PS suggested, to explain that in a little note so scholars (ahem) using the database can understand what's going on.
I mean, if you care about Bukowski scholars ;)
