Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the “talk poem.” He insists 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 clumps of words without justified margins or punctuation, peppered with white spaces that indicate pauses.In this book, editor Stephen Fredman provides a critical introduction to a selection of talk poems fro...

La obra rupturista, anómala y profundamente renovadora del poeta y crítico norteamericano David Antin (1932-2016), apenas ha circulado en nuestra lengua. Su propuesta (poemas hablados) amalgama poesía y performance, componiendo un reguero de esquirlas orales, agudas, siempre pensantes y fraguadas cadenciosamente de pie, en acto, desafiando todo ordenamiento literario. Como nos advierte el poeta Andrés Anwandter –autor de esta pionera y significativa muestra bilingüe de la obra de Antin– es...

Creative Non-fiction. A multifaceted set of lively writings by two poet-intellectuals (A. D. Coleman and Charles Bernstein) about the veracity of an avant-garde essay by third (David Antin) regarding realities within a publishing house run by the parents of one of them, Allan Douglass Coleman, this author.Coleman’s leftist family founded a high- end sci-tech press. He and David Antin worked there. Antin wrote about it. Coleman took issue and created poetic license / poetic justice....