David Antin (born in New York City, February 1, 1932) is a United States poet and critic. Antin earned his M.A.
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. Use this quote
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
