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Diane Wakoski

Category: American Poet
Type: Poet
National: American

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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an...

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did....

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and...

But I am not political in the current events sense,...

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to...

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of...

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider...

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern...

I am not political as a person....

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or...

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television....

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it....

I have always wanted what I have now come to...

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but...

I think one of the things that language poets are...

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and...

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to...

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part....

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience...

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't...

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as...

Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I...

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work...

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term...

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is...

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured...

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