Who is Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937) is an American poet. Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism.Life and work
Wakoski was born in Whittier, California. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. During her time at this university she participated in Thom Gunn's poetry workshops. It was there that she first read many of the modernist poets who would influence her writing style. Her early writings were considered part of the deep image movement that also included the works of Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, a...
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
- 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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Truequotation: the reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. — diane wakoskiRiza_carbos: 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 ralphgail at teenclashcon
Godgift64107811: 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 kalim~ sumbul gracing bb16 finale
Godgift64107811: 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 kalim~ sumbul gracing bb16 finale
Godgift64107811: 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 kalim~ sumbul gracing bb16 finale
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