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Title: What It Means to Be Avant-Garde by David Antin ISBN: 0-8112-1238-6 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: What It Means to Be Dull
Comment: A friend gave me this book and told me "You have to read this!" I have never begun a book and not finished it, but I came darn close this time. David Antin is a poet so he does not use punctuation or capitalization. He is the very first poet to ever write this way. His poems don't even rhyme (kidding, but no his poems don't rhyme). Anyway, the rules of English can't reign in Antin, but I got over this and read on. Antin writes about his life and comments on this and that but his life is so boring and strange that you begin to wonder how hard it is to get a book published. He goes on and on about this guy who communicates via sounds, I guess it might be entertaining to some people, I don't know, I guess I'm not intellectual enough to enjoy this book. I would have rather read a book about what he ate for lunch every day than this. I gave the book back to my friend and found out that she had never even read it! She had just heard that it was good. I'm still mad at her.

Rating: 5
Summary: Intellectually Stimulating. . .not in the geeky way either
Comment: As a student of Professor Antin's at the University of California- San Diego, it was not surprising to me when I found his book just as uniquely interesting and enthralling as his classroom lectures. His collection of stories in this book examines the human condition in a way that is humorous, and richly written, even without the use of punctuation.

Rating: 5
Summary: What it Means to be Avant-Garde
Comment: As a student of Professor Antin's at the University of California- San Diego, it was not surprising to me when I found his book just as uniquely interesting and enthralling as his classroom lectures. His collection of stories in this book examines the human condition in a way that is humorous, and richly written, even without the use of punctuation.

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