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| - | ====== David Antin ====== | + | ====== |
| - | David Antin wore many hats, including poet, scholar, and educator. Antin could be described as being an in-the-moment poet. He focused on spontaneity and context-based poetic creations. Antin’s signature talk poems were created through improvisation. Any written records of this poetry were transcribed from the original oral format. | + | David Antin wore many hats, including poet, scholar, and educator. Antin could be described as being an in-the-moment poet. He focused on spontaneity and context-based poetic creations. Antin’s signature talk poems were created through improvisation. Any written records of this poetry were transcribed from the original oral format. |
| Antin ventured outside of traditionally published poetic works, with creations such as his Sky Poems, written in skywriting through the use of planes. “Antin employed a team of pilots who had developed a skywriting technique called ‘sky typing’ which involved flying in formation & releasing a series of oil-based ‘puffs’ according to a preprogrammed code to produce dot matrix-style text in the sky.” This creative art was performed live for the public. | Antin ventured outside of traditionally published poetic works, with creations such as his Sky Poems, written in skywriting through the use of planes. “Antin employed a team of pilots who had developed a skywriting technique called ‘sky typing’ which involved flying in formation & releasing a series of oil-based ‘puffs’ according to a preprogrammed code to produce dot matrix-style text in the sky.” This creative art was performed live for the public. | ||
| - | The first sky poem, (featured on page 541 of //The Serpent and the Fire// anthology) used intentional spacing to add multiplicity of meaning: | + | The first sky poem, ((featured on page 541 of //The Serpent and the Fire// anthology)) used intentional spacing to add multiplicity of meaning: |
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| - | This oral poetic piece “was originally spoken at the First International Symposium on Ethnopoetics (Center for Twentieth Century Studies, Milwaukee, April 1975).” It takes place as a conversational exchange between David Antin and fellow participants Nathaniel Tarn, Richard Schedner, William Spanos, and Gary Synder. | + | This oral poetic piece “was originally spoken at the First International Symposium on Ethnopoetics |
| In the beginning of the piece, Antin equates Ethnopoetics with Human Poetics. Antin advocates for a poetry of open form. He discusses the concept of talking to discover, which he proposes is universal across cultures. Poetry, for Antin, should be in the act of discovering, | In the beginning of the piece, Antin equates Ethnopoetics with Human Poetics. Antin advocates for a poetry of open form. He discusses the concept of talking to discover, which he proposes is universal across cultures. Poetry, for Antin, should be in the act of discovering, | ||
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