David Antin
David Antin
David Antinis an American poet, critic and performance artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
song thinking speech
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
giving-up understanding trying
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
dog giving stories
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.
chicken turned
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
fails oral peculiar society
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.