Famous Diane Wakoski Quotes

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.
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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.
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
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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.
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