But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy, and I'd say that I do have some tools left. There are days I can't make a sentence… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done on the printed page. And the shorter ones that you might call poems, I had a… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy, and I'd… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Culture is a vulture but there's also vulture culture and cultured vultures and cultured yougurt (cherry, peach, pear, pineapple, grape, vanilla, plain, cherry vanilla,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
And the whole online thing is like, I just, that to me is a world that doesn't exist. It's not something you could touch… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
