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Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski
American Poet
Born: 1937
Always American Language People Political Think
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. Diane Wakoski
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I am not political as a person. Diane Wakoski
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Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. Diane Wakoski
Love Today Sometimes Language Spoken Irish Why
I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them. Diane Wakoski
People Events Will Other Television Occasionally Read Although Am Discuss Current Current Events Want Not Interested Interested Them Newspapers Watch
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. Diane Wakoski
Together People Interior Think Poetry Outside Come Identify Does Common Which Themselves Thing
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. Diane Wakoski
Happy Women Men Think Out Kind All Women More Poetry Write Perfectly Look Read Audience Always Odd Than Then
Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive. Diane Wakoski
You People Try Think Other Relate Evolution Tell Perceive More Also Coming Than Where Noticed
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. Diane Wakoski
Sometimes Gender Out Poetry Myths Written Geographic Context Reference Cultural American Often Race Ethnic Landscape Origins
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. Diane Wakoski
Good You Poet Myth Reading Consider Those Poetry Previous He Part Thus Know Answer Doing Cultural American Whether Aspects Figure Aware
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. Diane Wakoski
Me Lyrically Shakespeare Voice Poetry Come Call Narrative Always Been Personal Wanted Appealing Now Started
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. Diane Wakoski
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I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. Diane Wakoski
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So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. Diane Wakoski
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