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David Meltzer (1) (1937–2016)

Autor/a de The San Francisco poets

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55+ obres 360 Membres 4 Ressenyes

Sobre l'autor

David Meltzer was born on February 17, 1937. He was a poet and musician who created work that goes back to the Beat generation and San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. He wrote more than 40 volumes of poetry including Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957-1992, Name: Selected Poetry 1973-1983, mostra'n més Beat Thing, and David's Copy. His nonfiction work included Reading Jazz, Writing Jazz, When I Was a Poet, and Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook. He also wrote 10 novels. He taught in the humanities and graduate poetics programs at the New College of California in San Francisco from 1977 to 2007. In the 1960s, he was a singer-songwriter and guitarist for Bay Area bands that included the psychedelic folk-rock group Serpent Power. He died after suffering a stroke on December 31, 2016 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie

Obres de David Meltzer

The San Francisco poets (1971) 54 exemplars
Reading Jazz (1993) 22 exemplars
The Agency Trilogy (1994) 20 exemplars
No Eyes: Lester Young (2000) 14 exemplars
Hero/Lil (1973) 10 exemplars
Blue Rags (1974) 8 exemplars
Beat Thing (2004) 8 exemplars
Journal of the Birth (1967) 6 exemplars
Six (1976) 6 exemplars
Writing Jazz (1999) 5 exemplars
Luna (1970) 5 exemplars
Knots (1971) 4 exemplars
The Dark Continent (1967) 4 exemplars
Orf (1993) 4 exemplars
Yesod (1969) 4 exemplars
The Agency (1968) 3 exemplars
Ragas — Autor — 2 exemplars
French broom (1973) 2 exemplars
Tree 4: Winter 1974 2 exemplars
Bark, A Polemic (1973) 2 exemplars
Harps (1965) 2 exemplars
Tens Selected Poems 1961-1971 (1973) 2 exemplars
The agent (1968) 2 exemplars
How Many Blocks in the Pile? (1968) 2 exemplars
TREE #5 (Summer 1975) — Editor — 1 exemplars
Shuffle Boil (5/6) 1 exemplars
Shuffle Boil No. 3 1 exemplars
The Propet 1 exemplars
Glue factory 1 exemplars
Out 1 exemplars
Healer (1969) 1 exemplars
Lovely 1 exemplars
Shuffle Boil No. 2 1 exemplars
Nature Poem 1 exemplars
The Art - The Veil (1982) 1 exemplars
A Poem for My Wife 1 exemplars
The Martyr (1969) 1 exemplars
Beats in the Bay 1 exemplars
Shema 1 exemplars
Shuffle Boil No. 4 1 exemplars
Golden Gate: Interviews with 5 San Francisco Poets. (1975) — Editor — 1 exemplars
TREE: NO. 3 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Col·laborador — 592 exemplars
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (1995) — Col·laborador — 352 exemplars
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (1960) — Col·laborador — 318 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of International Erotica (1996) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics (2014) — Pròleg, algunes edicions45 exemplars
Six San Francisco Poets (1969) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
ACTS 1 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
New World Journal, Vol. 1, No.4 (1979) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
HAWK-WIND #2 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Hambone, No. 3 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

Etiquetat

Coneixement comú

Data de naixement
1937
Data de defunció
2016-12-31
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Rochester, New York, USA
Professions
poet
novelist
scholar
essayist
musician

Membres

Ressenyes

I usually like Meltzer's stuff, but I just couldn't find the door into this one. Maybe my taste is changing.
 
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ChrisNewton | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 18, 2016 |
David Meltzer (1937-), a noted Beat Poet, musician and long time San Francisco resident, moved to the city by the Bay in 1957, after he read two notable Beat poetry collections, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's [Pictures of the Gone World], published in 1955, and Allen Ginsberg's [Howl], which was released the following year. He befriended the two men, and also began to write poetry and fiction. He also played jazz guitar in the late 1950s and early 1960s, then became a part of the San Francisco rock scene in the middle of the decade, hosting jam sessions with artists such as David Crosby and Jerry Garcia. He later joined the psychedelic band Serpent Power, whose self titled album was proclaimed one of the best of the Summer of Love by Rolling Stone.

Despite his prolific output, [When I Was a Poet] is the first collection to be published by City Lights, which was released in 2011 as part of its Pocket Poets Series. The poems highlight the bohemian life of Meltzer, Ginsberg and their friends in 1950s San Francisco, with a style that favors but does not mimic that of his contemporaries. Meltzer, still active in his mid 70s, also writes about his life, and those close to him he has loved and lost, along with mid-century bebop and modern jazz, such as this tribute to legendary saxophonist Art Pepper:

Art's desire to get it all said
to all who thought him dead
in the joint & beside the point

Art's struggle to sing it all
through jazz warfare & tell
everything he knew in brass
speed rap stir crazy utopia
of muscle chops push it in your face
rough unrelenting grace

fierce Art pitbull clamps down
pulls edges out in time to break through
scream knotty beauty
toe to toe w/ any joe
who thinks they know better

Art tattoos blue needles into moonlight skin
junk light makes mirrors perfect
Art's smoke aches out of wounds

L.A. Art burritos & bebop
black guacamole serge zoots
Central Avenue cat copping

Pepper at Club Alabam
in Lee Young's band
all the chicks & the hatcheck chick
have big eyes for Art's horn


These poems, particularly "California Dreamin", are enjoyable to read. However, like most Beat Poetry, they are best appreciated in a smoky club or cozy bookstore, preferably with the backing of a jazz bassist or small ensemble. I missed seeing Meltzer read from this book at City Lights last year, but I hope to be able to catch him live in performance during a future trip to San Francisco.
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kidzdoc | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Apr 24, 2012 |
See pp. 184-185 for some brief but strong remarks from Michael McClure on 'Howl' in an interview from 1999. There is no index in this book, but you can use Google Books to search inside for the term 'Howl' [etc].
 
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HowlAtCLP | Dec 5, 2009 |
A splendid collection of interviews.
 
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ostrom | Nov 29, 2007 |

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Obres
55
També de
10
Membres
360
Popularitat
#66,630
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
4
ISBN
55
Llengües
2

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