David Antin
David Antin
David Antinis an American poet, critic and performance artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
David Antin quotes about
narrative different stories
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
growing-up fluency language
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
distinction unsatisfied
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
editing jazz-improvisation procedures
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
sacred casual secular
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
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.