“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 on the printed page. And the shorter ones that you might call poems, I had a stretch from '79, '80, for five or six years, where I wrote a lot of poetry as such. Simply because I was asked to.” IfsYearsFirstsI CanDoneMightFiveMaterialsSixPagesDrunkPrinted Author: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 that I do have some tools left. There are days I can't make a sentence out of anything, and anything I make looks clunky to me. But I still have a general grasp of the cliché, of the generic sentence. And if I didn't have that, I'd be a blob of putty on the floor.” IfsLooksStillsI CanTodayLeftSidesToolsMetaphorSentencesAbsurdAppealsCategoriesGenericLabelingLinkagesTaxonomy Author:Richard Meltzer
