While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
David AntinIt's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
David AntinI didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
David AntinMy way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
David Antin