David's Copy : Selected Poems

by Meltzer, David (Author); Rothenberg, Jerome (Introduction by); Rothenberg, Michael (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780143036180
• ISBN10: 0143036181
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-25
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

One of the most respected poets of the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance periods, David Meltzer has kept alive interest in the interface between jazz and poetry that exploded in the 1950s. This new edition of selected poems includes previously unpublished material and serves as a map to this very prolific and interesting poet.

Author Biography

David Meltzer has published numerous works of poetry, fiction, and collections of essays. He has also released four albums of recordings on the Vanguard and Capitol labels.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Michael Rothenberg	xiii
Introduction by Jerome Rothenberg	xv
PART 1: 1957-1980
Now for Instance the Idiot	3	(1)
...from an untitled long poem	4	(2)
Vision	6	(1)
2nd Raga: The Woods	7	(1)
Revelation	8	(1)
from: Night before Morning	9	(4)
For Joey Loewinsohn, Age: 4 Months, 9 Days	13	(1)
15th Raga/for Bela Lugosi	14	(1)
Moon Tunes	15	(1)
Poem for Tuolumne's First & Last Artist Investigator of Truth	16	(1)
6th Raga/for Bob Alexander	17	(1)
A Poem for My Wife	18	(1)
This Morning	19	(1)
Self -Portrait	20	(1)
The Luna Park Fire	21	(1)
The Blackest Rose	22	(1)
Youth Rite Reels	23	(4)
A Rent Tract for Lew Welch	27	(1)
Tishoh B'Ov, 1952	28	(1)
"To shut my eyes & awaken"	29	(1)
Mahshav, Mitva, Miktav	30	(2)
Oyez!	32	(1)
The Bath	33	(1)
New Year's Poem: 1967	34	(1)
from: The Clown (1959) for Wallace Berman	35	(2)
Lamentation for Zap the Zen Monk	37	(1)
Lamentation for Celine	38	(2)
Lamentation for Jack Spicer	40	(1)
"The Jew in me is the ghost of me"	41	(1)
Chthonic Fragments: 1	42	(4)
Chthonic Fragments: 2	46	(3)
Hymnus	49	(2)
Record Player	51	(1)
From Eden Book	52	(7)
The Argument	59	(1)
The Argument: 2	60	(1)
The Argument: 3	61	(1)
Nature Poem	62	(1)
Notes for a Poem to H.P. Lovecraft	63	(3)
Sonnet: 1	66	(2)
Songs Earth & Moon Sing after Supper	68	(1)
O sister	69	(2)
Sonnet: 6	71	(1)
Flight Poem	72	(1)
Luna Tunes: Poems for My Daughters Jenny, Maggie, & Amanda Rose	73	(2)
"The moon's a neighborhood, a block"	75	(1)
It's Simple	76	(1)
Letters & Numbers	77	(4)
One	81	(1)
Vashon Island Light	82	(1)
from: The Hollywood Poems	83	(2)
The Fire	85	(3)
Lamentation for Hank Williams	88	(1)
Mongol Mutt	89	(2)
Hero in the Air	91	(2)
Hero on Land	93	(1)
Hero Rides the Rails	94	(2)
Hero's Mom	96	(1)
Hero in Parts	97	(1)
from: Lil	98	(5)
from: Lil, the Second Shell	103	(4)
from: Bark, a Polemic	107	(5)
from: Blue Rags	112	(2)
from: Vav	114	(2)
from: Face	116	(2)
"Tongue."	118	(1)
from: The Veil	119	(3)
from: The Art	122	(5)
Entries	127	(3)
Notes for Asaph	130	(2)
17:II:82	132	(1)
18:VI:82	133	(1)
Darn That Dream	134	(6)
Boléro	140	(6)
The Red Shoes	146	(3)
Ninety Forty-five	149	(4)
PART 2: 1980-2005
Brother	153	(5)
The Eyes, the Blood	158	(3)
Monkey	161	(3)
"wood heart sound-board Bach Suite"	164	(1)
"who's the jew..."	165	(2)
"old reds..."	167	(2)
Millennial	169	(4)
No Eyes: Lester Young	173	(19)
Beat Thing: Commentary	192	(14)
Shema (1982)	206	(4)
Shema (2004)	210	(9)
The insane ain sof our rite as sleepwalked by Rebbe Yaakov Yosef ben Ariel as charted & diagrammed by Rube Goldberg & framed by Henny Youngman	219	(5)
from: Reds vs Feds	224	(21)
Tech 236p
Alien (s)	245	(14)
Bibliography	259