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- ====== David Antin ======+====== Talking to Discover by 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.  “An experimentally driven poet, Antin used found text, or juxtapositions of different kinds of texts, to create new linguistic and philosophical meanings in his early published work” (David). Among his multitude of works, Antin published two books of talk poetry, //Talking// ((Kulchur Foundation, 1972)) and //Talking at the Boundaries// ((New Directions, 1976)).  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.  “An experimentally driven poet, Antin used found text, or juxtapositions of different kinds of texts, to create new linguistic and philosophical meanings in his early published work” (David). Among his multitude of works, Antin published two books of talk poetry, //Talking// ((Kulchur Foundation, 1972)) and //Talking at the Boundaries// ((New Directions, 1976)). 
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 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, more specifically discovering self. This occurs in observing and adapting through discourse. To this point, he states, “In all language acts there is always an other” (459).  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, more specifically discovering self. This occurs in observing and adapting through discourse. To this point, he states, “In all language acts there is always an other” (459). 
  
-One example Antin provides to demonstrate this process of talking to discover is as follows ((taken from an unpublished doctoral dissertation by Donald Forman titled //Indirect Speech Acts,)) Speech Act Theory and Common Sense//:+One example Antin provides to demonstrate this process of talking to discover is as follows (taken from an unpublished doctoral dissertation by Donald Forman titled //Indirect Speech Acts, Speech Act Theory and Common Sense//:
  
 //DF:// How did the work in the Post Office change over all those years? //DF:// How did the work in the Post Office change over all those years?
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 "David Antin." Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/david-antin.  "David Antin." Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/david-antin. 
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