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- i never knew what time it was
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time—how it's felt, remembered, and recounted. These free-form talk pieces—sometimes called talk poems or simply talks—began as improvisations at museums, universities, and poetry centers where Antin was invited to come and think out loud. Serious and playful, they move rapidly from keen analysis to powerful storytelling to passages of pure comedy, as they range kaleidoscopically across Antin's experiences: in the New York City of his childhood and youth, the Eastern Europe of family and friends, and the New York and Southern California of his art and literary career. The author's analysis and abrasive comedy have been described as a mix of Lenny Bruce and Ludwig Wittgenstein, his commitment to verbal invention and narrative as a fusion of Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein. Taken together, these pieces provide a rich oral history of and critical context for the evolution of the California art scene from the 1960s onward.
Table of Contents
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- by way of a preface
- pp. ix-13
- california—the nervous camel
- pp. 11-37
- café europa
- pp. 38-47
- talking at blérancourt
- pp. 48-60
- the noise of time
- pp. 61-79
- i never knew what time it was
- pp. 80-106
- time on my hands
- pp. 107-131
- how wide is the frame
- pp. 132-149
- what happened to walter?
- pp. 150-169
- endangered nouns
- pp. 170-179
- Production Notes
- pp. 181-194
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520938298
Related ISBN(s)
9780520243057
MARC Record
OCLC
60407992
Pages
186
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No