The Continual Condition (pre-publication)

hank solo

hank solo

Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
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Perhaps its not just uncollected stuff?

Who do I need to tap up for a proof of this baby?
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

No mention of it on the HarperCollins website, but they only go about 90 days out on upcoming releases. It would be nice to get an ARC of this. You can sign up on the HarperCollins website; it looks like you might be able to get an ARC that way.

I wonder if they are going to subtitle this "The Last, Final, Ultimate, We Really Mean it this Time, Book of Poems." :D

Good to see more words coming out regardless.
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
I've been still amazed how productive Buk was.
What was his advise to Richmond again...drink, fuck and write?
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Well...he drank first before he started typing.
And the third advise; some do, some don't.
 
cirerita

cirerita

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Ponder,
The true extent of B's prolific output will be in your hands sooner than later, so to speak ;)
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
I wonder if it's part two of Pleasures...
 
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Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
Me neither! But I wonder why it's so big. Buk's poetry collections are usually not over 400 pages, and this one is 576 pages. That's why I think it might be something like Pleasures.
 
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Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
No way.
Do you really think we would discuss such a thing in the public forum :)
 
cirerita

cirerita

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Nah, no binders involved here. I'm still receiving tons of copies from several libraries. Don't worry about the binders, Roni, they're safe here.
 
mjp

mjp

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I heard a while ago from a pretty reliable and inside source that the next collection was going to be less than 200 pages, but all uncollected poems. But who knows. That seemed a bit thin for a release from Ecco/HC. Let's just hope they aren't padding it out with a lot of already published stuff.
 
mjp

mjp

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Johannes said:
Wow wow. Still stuff there. Amazing.
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The basis of the book is supposedly much older uncollected work, pre-BSP, even pre-Webbs. So this wouldn't include anything from his later period (you know, when he made a special, secret mark on the manuscript that meant, "this is so fantastic it must be not be published until after my death" ;)).

So any kind of padding they do will have to be with older work, or it's just going to be an ugly mix and match grab bag. Not that it would bother anyone in the corporate publishing world to release an ugly mix...
 
roni

roni

Ponder said:
576 pages ... That's a monster!
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well, as far as I know, the BIGGEST compilation of Buk-poems has been published, where? right! Germany!

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439 poems!
988 pages!
 
CarversDog

CarversDog

RIP
I just requested an ARC through my editor. Lots of interesting stuff coming out in the fall: a posthumous Updike poetry collection that I'm looking forward to, for one, as well as a new Bolano title (the executor of Bolano's estate just announced yesterday that they located a sixth book of "2666").
 
C

conl

So much for the "PLEASURES is DEFINITELY the last Ecco book of Buk poems" line.
I don't care if 99% of it is crap - if I can get one more "new" poem from Buk that moves me so long after his death, it's worth it.
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
That's good news! Let's hope it'll be one of the better posthumous books...
 
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