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Brief about David Antin: By info that we know David Antin was born at 1932-02-01. And also David Antin is American Poet.

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There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

Tags: Editing, Jazz, Talks

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

Tags: Left, May, Society

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

Tags: Him, Husband, Mother

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

Tags: Choice, Lose, Money

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

Tags: Kids, Small, Why

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

Tags: Process, Together, Working

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

Tags: Business, Focus, Help

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

Tags: Anxiety, Help, Remember

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

Tags: Century, Public, Talk

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

Tags: Actor, Reading, Work

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

Tags: Common, Taste, While

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: Great, Music, Poetry

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

Tags: Between, Children, Saying

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.

Tags: Experience, Family, Though

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

Tags: Lie, Name, White

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

Tags: Fortune, Idea, Real

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

Tags: Literary, Song, Text

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

Tags: Industry, Language, May

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

Tags: Between, Oral, Quite

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

Tags: Closer, Keep, Manage
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