David Antin (born in New York City, February 1, 1932) is an American poet, critic and performance artist. Read full biography of David Antin →
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an... →
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... →
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental... →
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help... →
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... →
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and... →
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... →
David Antin (born in New York City, February 1, 1932) is an American poet, critic and performance artist.