Video by Charles Bernstein of a large fragment of the talk.
From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Antin in the Sky with Diamonds, February 18, 2008
("I do the best I can")
David Antin
David and I met for lunch in SoH0, near Ellie's gallery. Much of our conversation focussed on David's essay collection; there were enough works for two books, so which to leave out? David was never much interested in talking about collecting his essays; his focus was always on what he doing now, what he was doing next. That's partly why it took him so long to gather together the pieces in that book. But I was persistent and brought up the essay collection just about every time we met. After a while, we walked outside and wound our way, slowly, toward Houston, talking all the while. I asked David about his sky-writing poems.
(mp4, 28 seconds, 5.4 mb)
Reading for Double Change, Paris, January 24, 2007
Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, September 17, 2005
Antin discusses and reads excerpts from i never knew what time it was:
- Part 1 (43:29) MP3
- Part 2 (22:05) MP3
Temple University, March 18, 2004
Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 16, 2004
"Living & Dying" (55:16): MP3,
RealAudio
Q & A session (36:51) MP3