David Antin
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David Antin (born in New York City in 1932) is a United States poet and critic. In the late 1960s, Antin began performing extemporaneously, improvising "talk poems" at readings and exhibitions. He has a fellowship in the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH. He also received the PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry in 1984. Antin lives in San Diego with his wife, the writer and performance artist Eleanor Antin.
[edit] Poetry Collections
- Definitions 1967
- Autobiography 1967, UbuWeb edition 2004
- Code of Flag Behavior 1968
- Meditations 1971
- After the War (A Long Novel with Few Words) 1973
- Talking 1974, 2001
- talking at the boundaries 1976
- tuning 1984
- what it means to be avant-garde 1993
- A Conversation with David Antin (with Charles Bernstein) 2001
- i never knew what time it was 2005
- john cage uncaged is still cagey 2006
[edit] External links
- David Antin at UbuWeb Includes PDF edition of Autobiography and full text of In Place of a Lecture: Three Musics for Two Voices from Talking
- David Antin at Electronic Poetry Center Includes excerpts from books, interviews, and sound recordings