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TalkingAuthor: David Antin American Literature Series May 2001 186 pages, 7.5 x 9.5 Dimensions: Paperback, 1-56478-271-9 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $10.00—20% OFF! 
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Book Description
"If someone came up and started talking a poem at you how would you know it was a poem?" So begins David Antin's Talking, a collection of writings that defy classification. Combining a passion for storytelling and improvisation with a unique sensitivity to the relationship between verbal and written language, Antin creates a work that is hilarious and intelligent, making use of techniques of poetry, fiction, theater, autobiography, and cultural criticism.
Originally published in 1972, the four pieces collected here center on political, social, and artistic concerns that were both timely and ahead of their time. In them we see Antin's real poetic achievement: the creation of new artistic forms.
About the Author
| 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). |
Praise
"Ever since he began publishing in the mid-sixties, David Antin has been a remarkably interesting and intelligent poet."—Gilbert Sorrentino, New York Times"The wedding of mind and heart, of emotion and reality, which is tone: this is the triumph of an artist like David Antin; a triumph which contravenes its author's stated purpose."—Donald Phelps, Vort
"If there still exists an avant-garde, David Antin gives it new life and new importance."—Stephen Fredman, San Francisco Review of Books
"As important a poet as we've got in America."—Jerome Rothenberg