David Antin; Selected Poems: 1963-1973
Series No.: SMC 010
ISBN: 1-55713-058-2, Pages: 431
A Sun & Moon title.
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One of the greatest performance poets of this century, David Antin is well known internationally for his “talk poems”— brilliantly spun improvisatory fables of contemporary society using all the traditional rhetorical and prosodic devices of poetry. But few readers have known his early work, and those seeking these books have found them nearly impossible to locate.
In "Selected Poems: 1963-1973" Antin has collected work from the three early books, Definitions, Autobiography, and Code of Flag Behavior, along with selections from Meditations, Talking, and the previously uncollected “long novel with few words,” After the War.
By turns brilliant and moving, original and ordinary, Antin’s early poems and fictions are a testament to his poetic achievement and the precursor of his current projects collected in Talking at the Boundaries and Tuning.