David Antin

David Antin

David Antin (born in New York City, February 1, 1932) is a United States poet and critic. Antin earned his M.A.

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

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David Antin

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.

Tags: Music, Great, Far

David Antin

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

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David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

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David Antin

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.

Tags: Future, Past, Self

David Antin