Diane Wakoski: Quotes, Biography, Awards, Bibliography, and a List of Books by Author Diane Wakoski

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"But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events." -- Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937) is an American poet who is associated with the deep image poets, and to a lesser degree, the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.

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"American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.""American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.""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.""But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.""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.""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.""High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.""I am not political as a person.""I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.""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.""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.""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.""I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.""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 great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.""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.""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.""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.""My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.""One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.""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.""PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.""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.""Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.""Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground."

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Total Books: 61

Argonaut Rose [Archaeology of Movies & Books/Diane Wakoski, Vol 4] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781574230475
ISBN-10: 1574230476

Argonaut Rose the Archaeology of Movies Books [The Archaeology of Movies and Books] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781574230482
ISBN-10: 1574230484

The Butcher's Apron New Selected Poems Including Greed Part 14 (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781574231441
ISBN-10: 1574231448
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Cap of Darkness (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780876854532
ISBN-10: 0876854536
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Collected Greed Parts 113 (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780876854624
ISBN-10: 0876854625

The Collected Greed Parts 113 (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780876854631
ISBN-10: 0876854633
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780876851791
ISBN-10: 0876851790
Genre: Literature & Fiction

The Diamond Dog (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781934695159
ISBN-10: 1934695157

The Emerald City of Las Vegas [The Archaeology of Movies and Books, V. 3] (Hardcover)

Emerald Ice Selected Poems 19621987 (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780876857441
ISBN-10: 0876857446
Genre: Literature & Fiction

The Fable of the Lion the Scorpion (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780915316199
ISBN-10: 0915316196

Greed (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780876850947
ISBN-10: 0876850948

Inside the Blood Factory (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780385052993
ISBN-10: 0385052995

Jason the Sailor [The Archaeology of Movies and Books - The Archaeology of Movies and Books, Vol 2] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780876859025
ISBN-10: 0876859023
Genre: Literature & Fiction

The Lady Who Drove Me to the Airport [Metcom Limited Editions Series, No 6] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780911381054
ISBN-10: 0911381058

The Magellanic Clouds (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780876850770
ISBN-10: 0876850778

Magellanic Clouds (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780876850787
ISBN-10: 0876850786

The Magician's Feastletters (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780876855317
ISBN-10: 0876855311
Genre: Literature & Fiction

The Man Who Shook Hands (Other) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780385134071
ISBN-10: 038513407X

Man Who Shook Hands (Hardcover)

Medea the Sorceress [Archaeology of Movies and Books, Vol. 1] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780876858103
ISBN-10: 0876858108

The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780671210113
ISBN-10: 0671210114

Playground Propaganda Poetry Anthology California State University Fullerton (Hardcover)

The Rings of Saturn (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780876856741
ISBN-10: 0876856741

Rings of Saturn (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover

Smudging (Paperback) → Hardcover

Toward a New Poetry [Poets on Poetry] (Paperback)

Trilogy (Hardcover)

Trilogy Coins Coffins Discrepancies and Apparitions the George Washington Poems (Hardcover) → Paperback

Unveilings (Paperback)

Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands (Paperback) → Hardcover

Waiting for the King of Spain (Paperback) → Hardcover

Why My Mother Likes Liberace a Musical Selection (Paperback)

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