John Martin used Bukowski as a cash cow basically. Bukowski's books funded other books that flop which John Martin's company published. https://www.poetrynw.or

John Martin used Bukowski as a cash cow basically. Bukowski's books funded other books that flop which John Martin's company published. https://www.poetrynw.org/interview-serious-books-a-conversation-with-john-martin/ https://www.poetrynw.org/interview-serious-books-a-conversat... It would be interesting to see how John Martin would explain those edits. They just look so bizarre, some invert the meaning completely, others are just petty edits to change stuff just for the heck of it. It's like there was a love-hate relationship between the two. In interview I found above, John keeps talking about himself when asked how the two of them hit it together, or how it was like seeing Bukowski rise and his response was basically "It was great, but look how much work I was doing". One could almost write a book about their relationship just based on the edits and reading into them all kinds of interesting things. It's like John hated the drinking and the vulgarity and try to correct some of it, but ended up ruining the work in the process.