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• Los primeros cinco años como escritor, no sabía cómo escribir en absoluto. No podía escribir ni en una bolsa de papel blanco. Y, sin embargo, hice cosas notables. Y más tarde, hubo períodos en los que tuve esta misión de encontrar una voz articulada con reescrituras y todo. Hubo períodos en los que era tan denso como Faulkner.

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  Writing, Years, Voice

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• 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.

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  Years, Issues, Pieces

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• 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. I wouldn't allow the work to be seen unless it felt perfect. Not clunky at all, no clunky syllables. So, really, for the printed page, it had to have a feeling of rhythmic and syntactic verisimilitude or something.

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  Writing, Perfect, Feelings

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• ¿Qué es la temática? ¿Cómo decirlo? Volviendo a 1980, cuando empecé a escribir poesía... El propio lenguaje se convirtió en un problema. Incluso pensaba en el tipo de letra como un aspecto del texto, ya sabes, cómo se ve algo en una página. Mucho de esto es el producto de una existencia muy solitaria, es como, el lenguaje, quiero decir, ya sabes. Pasé mucho tiempo solo en la creación de todas estas cosas.

  Richard Meltzer

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

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• 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, that writing poetry affected my prose to the point where I never again wrote in one draft, and my prose just took longer and longer and longer. It took longer and longer to come up with an acceptable text. And that's probably one of the reasons that my output has slowed down.

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  Writing, Mind, Might

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• 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.

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  Depth, Might, Corny

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• Si hubiera mirado algunas de estas piezas como si este proyecto no fuera spoken-word, sino una pequeña antología, probablemente me habría peleado con algunas de las frases, ¿sabes? El silabeo y la prosodia y esas chorradas. Porque la palabra impresa está grabada en piedra. Pero a efectos de lectura, acepté este libro de textos tal y como los escribí, sin necesidad de alharacas. La mayoría de las cosas más cortas fueron escritas como poesía. Lo que significa mucho espacio en blanco en la página.

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  Book, Reading, White

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• Si estoy muy borracho, puedo improvisar. Pero en general, no. En general, casi todo mi trabajo es material que se hizo por primera vez en la página impresa. Y las obras más cortas, que podrían llamarse poemas, tuve un período de cinco o seis años, entre el 79 y el 80, en el que escribí mucha poesía como tal. Simplemente porque me lo pidieron.

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  Years, Drunk, Done

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• Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn't seem menacing at first troubled me. Then I thought, What the hey, you know? I'm 66 years old, and I could just crack open a beer and listen to it, and it doesn't trouble me that it doesn't kill. Once upon a time, it probably would have.

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  Beer, Years, Once Upon A Time

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• 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 going to be a document of a multiplicity of my writings, it'll do. It feels like a birthday party or something.

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  Party, Writing, Matter

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• Básicamente, he llegado a un punto en el que he perdido toda relación directa con cualquiera de los editores que solía tener. Sospecho que tendré que pagar para publicarlo yo mismo, y pienso mucho en sacar cincuenta ejemplares. Antes pensaba en tonterías como mi legado y cosas así. Pero creo que si no vuelvo a publicar otro libro, lo habré hecho bien, he tenido como doce o trece pequeños libros, y no estaré disgustado por esto en mi lecho de muerte.

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  Silly, Book, Thinking

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• 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 eyes get worse, it's very hard to read. And there's no money in it. I mean, it's like they pay, like the best you can go is 1970 prices.

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  Mean, Eye, Smell

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• 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 the '70s and '80s that I made a living. And very rarely have I had to take another job. And now it's impossible for anybody coming up to make such a living. They've pissed in the temple, you know?

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  Trabajo, Escritura, Años

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• Cuando llegas a los ochenta y cuatro, entonces estás preparado para sentarte y pensar de forma universal y sistemática. Yo estudié filosofía hace mucho, mucho tiempo. En Stony Brook. ¿Tuviste algo que ver con alguna escuela universitaria estatal?

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  Philosophy, School, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Tools, Looks, Taxonomy

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