David Antin is a poet, critic and performance artist, whose many 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), What It Means to be Avant-Garde (1993), A Conversation with David Antin (with Charles Bernstein) (2001), i never knew what time it was (2005), john cage uncaged is still cagey (2005), and Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005 (University of Chicago, 2011).