Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then.
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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.David Antin
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
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I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
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I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
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