David Antin is professor emeritus in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently of i never knew what time it was and A Conversation with David Antin (coauthored with Charles Bernstein). He has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

"Ever since he began publishing in the mid-sixties, David Antin has been a remarkably interesting and intelligent poet." -New York Times "A decade before he became the seminal 'talk poet' we all know, David Antin was already writing some of the best art criticism in America. In the waning days of Abstract Expressionism, Antin introduced other ways of thinking about art that looked ahead to twenty-first-century modes of conceptualism, performance, and digital poetics. This superb selection from his writings, which brings together essays-some of them already classics-and a number of talk-pieces from the last forty years, is a real treasure." -Marjorie Perloff"

David Antin is professor emeritus in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently of i never knew what time it was and A Conversation with David Antin (coauthored with Charles Bernstein). He has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

"Ever since he began publishing in the mid-sixties, David Antin has been a remarkably interesting and intelligent poet." -New York Times "A decade before he became the seminal 'talk poet' we all know, David Antin was already writing some of the best art criticism in America. In the waning days of Abstract Expressionism, Antin introduced other ways of thinking about art that looked ahead to twenty-first-century modes of conceptualism, performance, and digital poetics. This superb selection from his writings, which brings together essays-some of them already classics-and a number of talk-pieces from the last forty years, is a real treasure." -Marjorie Perloff"

David Antin is professor emeritus in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently of i never knew what time it was and A Conversation with David Antin (coauthored with Charles Bernstein). He has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

"Ever since he began publishing in the mid-sixties, David Antin has been a remarkably interesting and intelligent poet." -New York Times "A decade before he became the seminal 'talk poet' we all know, David Antin was already writing some of the best art criticism in America. In the waning days of Abstract Expressionism, Antin introduced other ways of thinking about art that looked ahead to twenty-first-century modes of conceptualism, performance, and digital poetics. This superb selection from his writings, which brings together essays-some of them already classics-and a number of talk-pieces from the last forty years, is a real treasure." -Marjorie Perloff"