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David Antin

Bio Notes & Publications

David Antin is a poet, critic and performance artist, whose books include Definitions (1967), Autobiography (1967), Code of Flag Behavior (1968), Meditations (1971), Talking (1972 & 2001), After the War (A Long Novel with Few Words) (1973), Dialogue (1980), Tuning (1984), Selected Poems 1963-1973 (1991) and What It Means to be Avant-Garde (1993), A Conversation with David Antin, a dialogue with Charles Bernstein,; and i never knew what time it was (University of California Press, 2005).

Online Works

David Antin Soundfiles at PennSound

"Some Questions about Modernism" (1974)

On Narrative (vs story) (1995) in three parts: one, two, three.

"Words to the Wise" (2009)

Autobiography (1967, Great Bear Pamphlet, Something Else Press) [PDF, 580k] (via UBU)

TALKS

"The Noise of Time" (from Boston Review)
from Tuning (New Directions, 1984)
"Three Musics for Two Voices" (Aspen, no. 8 -- c. 1970 -- via Ubu)

INTERVIEWS
Talking and Thinking: David Antin in Conversation with Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (Postmodern Culture, 1993)
an excerpt from A Conversation with David Antin by Antin and Charles Bernstein; about the Granary Book

ABOUT
Caroline Bergvall on A Conversation with David Antin (Jacket)
Douglas Messerli on Antin's essays (2011)
San Diego Reader on Antin's essays (2011)
Antin issue of the Review of Contermporary Fiction (via Archive.org)

Page edited by:Charles Bernstein (Oct.. 2006)

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