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).  His most recent book, from Granary, is A Conversation with David Antin, a dialogue with Charles Bernstein, part of which is available on – line from the Review of Contemporary Fiction.  He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.