Agency Books In Order
- The Agency (1968)
- The Agent (1968)
Novels
- Orf (1968)
- Under (1995)
Collections
Chapbooks
- Bark: A polemic (1973)
Anthologies edited
- The San Francisco Poets (1971)
Non fiction
- No Eyes: Lester Young (2000)
- San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets (2001)
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David Meltzer Books Overview
No Eyes: Lester Young
In 1959, at the age of fifty, tenor man Lester Young a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan. David Meltzer’s latest book is a poetic meditation on the last year of Young’s life, a year of joyful playing and self willed dying, of creation and negation. But what do ‘eyes’ and ‘no eyes’ mean? In hipster’s parlance: ‘To see or not to see, to be or not to be, to do or to die.’ As Meltzer explains, ‘No Eyes is a book about death, and Young sits in for a metaphor for the artist living and dying for and with his art.’
San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets
Thirty years ago, poet David Meltzer interviewed his poet friends Rexroth, McClure, Ferlinghetti, Everson, and Welch for The San Francisco Poets. Now he has combined these classic interviews with new talks with McClure, Ferlinghetti, Lamantia, Kyger, Snyder, Hirschman, Di Prima, Micheline, Whalen, and Meltzer along with follow up interviews with friends of Everson and Rexroth. San Francisco Beat is an archive of the Beat Generation and a look back by some of the survivors. Photos of then and now by Harry Redl and Larry Keenan.
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