My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things, some of the pieces I've used there, when I first wrote them, they seemed probably very menacing, and I hear them now, and they're just kind of pleasant, if that's the word.
Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow. - Richard Meltzer
Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.
- Richard Meltzer
A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable… - Richard Meltzer
A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable…
The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable… - Richard Meltzer
The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable…
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 t… - Richard Meltzer
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 t…
I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though, t… - Richard Meltzer
I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though, t…
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 much through … - Richard Meltzer
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 much through …
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 or lick or smell. And as my … - Richard Meltzer
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 or lick or smell. And as my …
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… - Richard Meltzer
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…
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 this is goi… - Richard Meltzer
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 this is goi…
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