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.
thinking want welcome
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
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.
thinking way path
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
thinking giving taste
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 George Brecht.
believe thinking focus
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 me by providing a focus.
thinking newton james-watt
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
came means meant telling thinking
Thinking while talking, and thinking by any means I could, which meant thinking by telling stories, came to me at pretty much the same time.
attention begin books individual nobody paid structure works
Nobody has paid much attention to the structure of my books as books, probably because the individual works all begin in performance.
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.
running past self
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
distinction unsatisfied
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
memories anxiety greek
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
mother husband appreciate
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.