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David Antin - Photo by Kinsee Morlan
David Antin is known as a poet and an art critic, but he calls himself a "poet art critic," which is a more fitting description.
In this week's podcast, Antin talks about his recently released book, Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art & Literature, 1966-2005, and gives us a few samplings of the lively narratives that can be found within its pages.
Antin will be at D.G.Wills Books at 7 p.m. Friday, May 13, giving a talk about his book and the role of an art critic in society. Antin himself was a bit of a maverick critic who took a completely new and creative look at the emerging art and literature world in New York and California from the 1960s on.
A talented poet best known for his "talk poetry" improv pieces, a few of the essays in his new book are written in the talk-poetry style, including an interesting one that he recorded at a conference on the Rothko Chapel.
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