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What it means to be avant-garde / David Antin.
- Title
- What it means to be avant-garde / David Antin.
- Author
- Antin, David
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, 1993.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3551.N75 W5 1993 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 207 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- What it means to be avant-garde is David Antin's third collection of "talk poems" published by New Directions. As in his earlier talking at the boundaries (1976), and tuning (winner of the 1984 PEN/Los Angeles Literary Award for Poetry), Antin's brilliant improvised disquisitions at once challenge readers' expectations even as they instruct and entertain. A poet, performance artist, art critic, and professor of visual arts, Antin, since his college days in New York in the '50s, has been at the cutting edge of the avant-garde. The avant-garde? Yes, if by this is meant not an image of fashion but the place where art and life intersect, imparting to both a greater urgency - if is meant the place where experience and knowledge find their deepest expression, where the idea of a universal language can find shape, where the price of art is itself, where the fringe is the very center of existence.
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; 760
- Subject
- American poetry
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The fringe -- Spring love noise and all -- What it means to be avant-garde -- Durations -- The price -- The river -- The structuralist.
- ISBN
- 0811212386 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^93009189^
- OCLC
- 27339367
- SCSB-11122767
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library