David Antin
David Antin
David Antinis an American poet, critic and performance artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
writing remember imagine
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
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.
real ideas made
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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.
character mouths novel
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
ideas rejection entertainment
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
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.
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.
thinking way path
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
mother widows chickens
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
art way causes
An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently