"Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the……" — Diane Wakoski
"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."
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30 Quotes by Diane Wakoski
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Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
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Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
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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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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political…
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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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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry…
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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 do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will…
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I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it…
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I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like…
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I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
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American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
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