Research Catalog

Title

How Long is the Present : Selected Talk Poems of David Antin / edited by Stephen Fredman.

Author

Antin, David

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Fredman, Stephen, 1948-

Description

xxiv, 381 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the "talk poem." He insisted that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in short units interrupted by white spaces to indicate verbal pauses with little or no punctuation. In this book editor Stephen Fredman provides critical introductions to a selection of talk poems from Antin's now out-of-print collections in conjunction with a new interview with the author. As Fredman points out, Antin's work is a form in conceptual writing that has influenced a generation of experimental poets. His talk poems are essential for classroom and scholarly discussions about modernism, postmodernism, and poetry--offering an opportunity to strengthen the tie between science and the humanities"--

Series Statement

Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• POETRY > General
• Poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From talking at the boundaries (1976) is this the right place? ; talking at the boundaries ; the invention of fact -- From tuning (1984) "roys daughter ..." ; the currency of the country ; how long is the present ; tuning ; dialogue -- From what it means to be avant-garde (1993) the fringe ; what it means to be avant-garde ; the price -- Afterword: An Interview with David Antin. spring 2013.

ISBN

• 9780826355294
• 0826355293
• 9780826355300 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014006367

OCLC

• 877851208
• SCSB-12563134

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library