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 to pay to publish this myself, and I think a lot about about putting out fifty… — 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
