David Abraham Antin (February 1, 1932 – October 11, 2016) was an American poet, art critic, performance artist, and university professor. [1] Antin was born in New York City in 1932. After graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School, he earned his B.A. from City College of New York in 1955 and his M.A. from New York University in 1966.

A poet, artist, and critic, Antin is associated with a group of artists and poets who brought new definitions and ambitions to poetry in the early 1970s. He taught in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego for over 25 years.

David Antin was an American poet, translator, and art critic who became best known for his improvisational “talk poems,” first published in Talking (1972), which blend lighthearted storytelling and comedy with social commentary.

David Antin, a poet, critic and performance artist of lasting importance, passed away on October 11, 2016. He was 84. His background included undergraduate work in science and languages with graduate work in linguistics at New York University (his special project was the language structure of Gertrude Stein).

David Antin - A poet, visual media artist, critic and essayist, David Antin has published over ten books of poetry and critical essays, and has lived and taught in San Diego, CA since 1968.

2016年10月18日 · David Antin, whose improvised performances, which he called “talk poems,” introduced a radical new form into American poetry in the 1970s, died on Oct. 11 in San Diego. He was 84. The cause...

2011年8月11日 · Robert L. Pincus at the San Diego Reader wrote an in-depth feature on poet and art critic David Antin, whose Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1965 to 2005 was published in March. Antin begins by talking about the artistic community he found in southern California, where he, a native New Yorker, relocated in 1968:

David Antin (1932- ) was born in New York City. After receiving his BA from City College of New York in 1955, he worked as an electronic engineer, and as a freelance translator and editor, mostly of scientific material. In 1964, he entered New …

David Abraham Antin (February 1, 1932 – October 11, 2016) was an American poet, art critic, performance artist, and university professor.

David Antin is a poet, critic and performance artist, whose books include Definitions (1967), Autobiography (1967), Code of Flag Behavior (1968), Meditations (1971), Talking (1972 & 2001), After the War (A Long Novel with Few Words) (1973), Dialogue (1980), Tuning (1984), Selected Poems 1963-1973 (1991) and What It Means to be Avant-Garde (1993 ...