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Article: Introducing David Antin.
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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The work of David Antin--storyteller and narrativist, as well as talker, artist, performer, critic, poet, thinker, philosopher, and one-time novelist--attends a singular position within American art and literature. It does so not solely because of its diverse generic range (although this is remarkable enough) but because, more importantly, this diversity is often evident in a single, given work. His talk pieces, for instance--commonly thought of as poems and curiously gathered under that rubric--are far from the wrought and uniform objects often associated with that term. Instead they encompass, while rarely eschewing, elements of narrative and performance, of story, plot, ...
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Article: David Antin and Charles Bernstein. A Conversation with ...
The Review of Contemporary Fiction;
September 22, 2002 ;
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... ... poetics of thinking." For Antin, poetry is a tool. The poet ... erudite interplay that, as Antin notes, itself resembles a talk ... anecdotes, memories of the New York art world of the sixties and ... Album Notes," a sequence of Antin-family photographs that follows ...
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