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.
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. - Diane Wakoski
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.
- Diane Wakoski
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. - Diane Wakoski
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. - Diane Wakoski
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
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 ide… - Diane Wakoski
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 ide…
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. - Diane Wakoski
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. - Diane Wakoski
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. - Diane Wakoski
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
Poems come from incomplete knowledge. - Diane Wakoski
Poems come from incomplete knowledge.
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's p… - Diane Wakoski
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's p…
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