David Antin

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing read more

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, read more

Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for read more

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea read more

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

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

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.