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yeah, re editing: corrected version of msg here. TONY: that this book is now available is an extraordinary thing. it's been done for quite a few years now (Matt Chambers told me back in 2007, or at least around that time, that Don Share's edition of Bunting was on it's way, and we both contacted Share about it, the two of us doing work on Bunting -- and of course Matt has that essay on Bunting and Zukofsky in the Public Space book you published a couple years ago. anyhow, the really weird thing is that Buffalo, where both Matt and i studied, has the largest Bunting archive in the world -- i mean, even Bunting's monstrous sextant is there, the one he wandered the streets of NYC with when he was visiting Zukofsky; most of those materials, even the Briggflatts notebook, were passed onto the Poetry Collection at Bflo by Tom Pickard. but despite having the largest Bunting archive, Matt found no evidence that Don Share had ever explored the holdings at Buffalo, and so we were both curious as to how well-researched Don Share's collected could possibly be, if it could displace Caddell's work. in any case, Share was a student of Christopher Ricks, and so the connection to Ricks and Geoffrey Hill is there. and if i recall correctly, this Faber edition of Bunting is a revised version of Share's diss, which was supervised by Ricks. so Share *must* have visited Buffalo, despite there being no clear record of this, right? if not, then all he could have done was edit along the lines of first (or certain) appearances. either way, happy to see this edition has, after so many years, made the light of day. i think it promises to be crucial. warmly ... rich ...