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David Antin

"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

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Donna Grant

"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."

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Donna Grant

"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."

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Donna Grant

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

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Donna Grant

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

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Donna Grant

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

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Donna Grant

"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

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Donna Grant

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

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Donna Grant

"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

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Donna Grant

"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

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Donna Grant

"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

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David Antin
"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."

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David Antin
"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."

God

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David Antin
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."

Thinking

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David Antin
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

Editing

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David Antin
"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."

Poetry

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David Antin
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."

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David Antin
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."

Sophists

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David Antin
"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."

Character

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David Antin
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."

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David Antin
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."

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