The poem is perhaps the highest verbal form of communication.
His most recent book, When I Was a Poet , was published in 2011 as volume 60 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series..
In addition to writing many books of Poetry and editing many anthologies, Meltzer has published 11 erotic novels, including the acclaimed Agency Trilogy .
A pioneer of the jazz-Poetry reading, Meltzer also formed the psychedelic folk-rock group Serpent Power in the late \'60s, recording for Vanguard Records. as part of Wallace Berman\'s Semina circle, Meltzer moved to San Francisco.
In 1957, after a few years in L.
A.
A child prodigy, Meltzer performed music on radio and TV in NY in the late \'40s.
He was the youngest poet included in Donald Allen\'s seminal anthology, The New American Poetry: 1945-1960 . a gift of delight and wisdom--keep it in your bag by day and by your bed at night.-- Mary Ruefle About author(s): David Meltzer is a poet associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance.
Ramble, scribble, tickle, lightbulb! Timely and highly worthwhile.-- Clark Coolidge "Invaluable for anyone who reads or writes poetry, or has a restless desire of any kind, this wondrous, zany compendium gives us \'a biography of poetry\' that directly enters our veins, bypassing all the crud and restoring our sense of the art, and David Meltzer is a champion of the impossible to have compiled it ...
Meltzer\'s grace of mind & the life of Poetry that surrounds it make the case complete."-- Jerome Rothenberg A great book of learning from a lifetime\'s thoughts of the poem.
This book makes me want to make poems, and readers, beware: if you are not already a poet, this book could very well turn you into one.-- Matthew Zapruder I know of no better amalgam of Poetry & poetics & no better introduction to the ways in which Poetry can emerge for us & lead us beyond ourselves & toward our own fulfillments.
Praise for Two-Way Mirror Reading Two-Way Mirror , I feel continually surprised, excited, alive.
Attractively bound and printed in a deluxe gift edition, and featuring Meltzer\'s collection of found artwork collaged from thrift-store grammar books, this new and expanded edition retains the charm of the original while updating it for the present day.
Building upon the version he self-published in 1977, Meltzer has written additional material that considers the effect of technological developments since the book\'s publication, as well as an afterword in which he reflects on the history of the volume, its inception, and its usefulness.
With its various writing prompts, Two-Way Mirror has proven to be both inspirational and practical, a teaching tool and a guide to creativity that makes the perfect gift for poets at any stage of development.
Written in short remarks, autobiographical anecdotes, and inspirational quotations drawn from philosophical, ethnographic, and literary sources, Two-Way Mirror is both a nondidactic guide to the art Meltzer has devoted his life to, and a literary pleasure in itself.
It is as precise and as vague as a mirror.-- David Meltzer Two-Way Mirror is a classic book of poetics.
It illuminates and it conceals.
The poem is perhaps the highest verbal form of communication
