Recycling

[mjp]

Here's a good one. Compare the last stanza of each:

http://bukowski.net/manuscripts/displaymanuscript.php?show=poem1975-04-15-instructor.jpg&workid=4193

http://bukowski.net/manuscripts/dis...m1975-08-08-out_on_the_branch.jpg&workid=2361

 

[Purple Stickpin]

The emperor of San Francisco occurs in Women and a few poems, as I recall. The last stanzas in "A Note Upon..." and "out on the branch" poems are clearly different because of the variation in line hard returns. :eek:

 

[Hosh]

Thank god I'm not the only one!

 

[christopher]

Sometimes when reading Bukowski, my sanity is questioned. I often find myself thinking "didn't I read this already?"

 

[Otto jr]

I knew of a few other places where he "recycled." Can't think of any glaring examples now, but when I do I will note them here.

When I do this I call it "plagiarizing myself."

 

[mjp]