Talking at the Boundaries
New Directions Books, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. SIGNED by author on FFEP and inscribed to Ralph Sylvester, half of the publishing duo Sylvester and Orphanos. First Edition. 277pp. Grey heathered cloth-effect paper over board black-stamped spine lettering. An exceptionally clean and crisp copy. Dust jacket has some trivial toning to extremities, very small scuffs to head and tail of spine, otherwise bright and sharp. 'For the last few years the poet and art critic David Antin has been performing spontaneous 'talk poems,' eight of which have been brought together in Talking at the Boundaries. 'I see my talking pieces,' says Antin, 'as philosophical inquiries to which I try to bring the resources of language, not only my own language, but natural language in its natural setting, or one of its natural settings-talk. I've been a poet, critic, linguist, and engineer, and though this knowledge informs the book, it is not the work of a professional, of which there are by now too many that have proved too useless. What kind of a professional was Socrates?'' 'The wedding of mind and heart, of emotion and reality, which is tone: this is the triumph of an artist like David Antin; a triumph which contravenes its own author's stated premises.' -DONALD PHELPS, Vort. FINE / NEAR FINE. Item #507702
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