i never knew what time it was
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i never knew what time it was by David Antin
In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time - how it's felt, remembered, and recounted. These free-form talk pieces - sometimes called talk poems or simply talks - began as improvisations at museums, universities, and poetry centers where Antin was invited to come and think out loud. Serious and playful, they move rapidly from keen analysis to powerful storytelling to passages of pure comedy, as they range kaleidoscopically across Antin's experiences: in the New York City of his childhood and youth, the Eastern Europe of family and friends, and the New York and Southern California of his art and literary career. The author's analysis and abrasive comedy have been described as a mix of Lenny Bruce and Ludwig Wittgenstein, his commitment to verbal invention and narrative as a fusion of Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein. Taken together, these pieces provide a rich oral history of and critical context for the evolution of the California art scene from the 1960s onward.
"The poems in this volume are unforgettableRichly funny, elegiac, philosophical, contentious, filled with astonishing stories and bizarre characters - some of the finest writing by today's most compelling poet." - Gerald Bruns, author of The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics"
David Antin is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Among his most recent books are A Conversation with David Antin (2002), what it means to be avant-garde (1993), and Selected Poems: 1963-1973 (1991).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520243057 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520243056 |
| Title | i never knew what time it was |
| Author | David Antin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2005-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 186 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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