David Antin
David Antin
David Antinis an American poet, critic and performance artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
lying men names
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
meaningful children singing
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
long format prose
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
kids college ideas
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
together kind process
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
thinking way path
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
want experts range
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
writing remember imagine
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
writing thinking writing-poems
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
sacred casual secular
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
remember hebrew enough
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
fundamentals pursuit theory
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
thinking want welcome
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
song circles corny
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.