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David Antin

"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."

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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."

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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

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

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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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David Antin
"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer."

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David Antin
"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton."

Thought

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

Hebrew

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

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David Antin
"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."

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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."

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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."

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