READINGS & MORE IN CELEBRATION OF A NEW BOOK BY DAVID MELTZER (1937-2016) 

 Rock Tao 

by David Meltzer

published by Lithic Press

 

Upcoming Readings

 

***Sunday Oct 23rd 2pm @ Beyond Baroque Venice, CA***

 

Patrick James Dunagan hosts

Julie Rogers*Marc Olmsted*Susan Helfond-Saunders*Richard Modiano*Lorraine Perrotta*S.A. Griffin*Marina Lazzara*George Herms

 

***Thursday Oct 27^th @ Specs bar (in North Beach across Columbus Ave from City Lights) San Francisco, CA***

 

Patrick James Dunagan hosts

Julie Rogers*Nicholas James Whittington*Jessica Loos*Tate Swindell*Marina Lazzara*Neeli Cherkovski*Julien Poirier

 

***Saturday Nov 5 @ Third Mind Books Ann Arbor, MI***

 

Patrick James Dunagan will read from and discuss the editing of Rock Tao, along with his own book of poems After the Banished dedicated to poet Tom Clark and discuss studying Poetics with David and Tom at New College of California

Rock Tao has been reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle as well as by poet Genny Lim

 

There was a festive early Book release event at Bird and Beckett in San Francisco

Recent Praise:

"David Meltzer's ROCK TAO may very well be the best book I've ever read on rock-n-roll music, and it was written in 1965 when David was 28 years young. Super deep and swingin poetics." —Thurston Moore

 "Priceless accounts, observations, passion, bricolage/montage from musical genius poet, archivist of existence, adept of essentials, spiritual practitioner of mystical consciousness. You always wanted to “pick his brain” but rarely an op. Here’s a way to bask in Meltzer’s youthful bedrock enthusiasm, in the lineage of “istorin”, to find out for oneself. ROCK TAO is an exemplary lift, original, and generative for what matters in this crazy life. “Art as fire." —Anne Waldman

 "I can hear David's voice." —George Herms

 "Lovingly edited by Patrick James Dunagan and exquisitely realized by Lithic Press, ROCK TAO by David Meltzer is as relevant, and as visionary today as it was when David wrote it almost 60 years ago. But don’t fool yourself into thinking this tour de force is some sort of nostalgia trip, this magnificent hero’s journey is a timeless poetic collage with David as both the medium and the message." —S.A. Griffin