Antin, David

Antin, David

▪ American poet
born Feb. 1, 1932, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      American poet, translator, and art critic who became best known for his improvisational “talk poems,” first published in Talking (1972), which blend lighthearted storytelling and comedy with social commentary.

      Antin was educated at the City College of New York (B.A., 1955) and New York University (M.A., 1966). He was curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art (1967) in Boston and from 1968 taught visual arts at the University of California at San Diego.

      His poetry collections include Definitions (1967), Code of Flag Behavior (1968), After the War: A Long Novel with Few Words (1973), Talking at the Boundaries (1976), and Tuning (1984). Antin improvised his talk poems in public places, tape-recording his performances. Considering the resulting poems to be “adapted notations” of his performances, he later published those he thought had merit. His subsequent works include Selected Poems: 1963–73 (1991), What It Means to Be Avant Garde (1993), John Cage Uncaged Is Still Cagey (2005), and I Never Knew What Time It Was (2005), an exploration of the mysteries of time. A Conversation with David Antin (2002) is the text of an e-mail conversation between Antin and poet Charles Bernstein in which Antin discusses his poetry, early life, and aesthetic philosophy. Antin also translated several scientific works from German into English.

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