David Meltzer, in his seventh decade, continues to be the stunt man of American writing. A major poets of the Beat generation, Meltzer is the author of more than 50 books--poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, anthologies. Meltzer's books include No Eyes (Black Sparrow), poems on Lester Young; and a book of interviews, San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets (City Lights). Meltzer's Beat Thing (La Alameda Press) is his epic poem on the Beat generation. David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (Penguin) appeared in 2005. His most recent books are When I Was a Poet (City Lights, 2011) and Stunt Man (Omerta, 2013). Meltzer is also a jazz guitarist, Cabalist scholar, raconteur, and spellbinding reader of his work.