How Long Is the Present: Selected Talk Poems of David Antin

by David Antin

Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the talk poem. He insists that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in clumps of words without justified margins or punctuation, peppered with white spaces that indicate pauses.

In this book, editor Stephen Fredman provides a critical introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826355293
• ISBN13: 9780826355294
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.1"