The Buk

It may seem like I am inflicting a rather slow, painful death upon my own website, and though I can't actually deny that, I ask that you imagine that the Cruelest Month is sleeping peacefully, storing energy for a balls-out comeback.  As way of explanation for the lack of activity over the past few months, you guessed it, I've been good and busy.  So has Ecco for that matter, and Fall 2007 has been a strong season.  Rounding out 2007 is The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski, edited by John Martin, which was reviewed by Jim Harrison in the NY Times this past week.

I am not inclined to make elaborate claims for Bukowski, because there is no one to compare him to, plus or minus. He wrote in the language of his class as surely as Wallace Stevens wrote in the language of his own. This book offers you a fair chance to make up your own mind on this quarrelsome monster. It is ironical that those who man the gates of the canon will rarely if ever make it inside themselves. Bukowski came in a secret back door.

We're happy to play our part.  Oh, and the first three readers to write [email protected] with "Pleasures of the Damned" as their subject line and with their mailing address in the body will receive a free copy.  A little later in the week, I'll post the broadside and send a few of those out.

The NY Times Notable list has been posted, as well.  Ecco makes a fair showing on a strong list.  It's worth a look.

*Three readers wrote in.  Three books will be sent out.  Thanks for reading and writing--in and in general!

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[Hollisntq226]

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The Buk missile system is the successor to the NIIP/Vympel 2K12 Kub. The first version of Buk adopted into service carried the GRAU designation 9K37 and was identified in the west with the NATO reporting name "Gadfly" as well as the US Department of Defense designation SA-11. Since its initial introduction into service the Buk missile system has been continually upgraded and refined with the latest incarnation carrying the designation 9K37M2 "Buk-M2".

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