"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."

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"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."

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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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"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."

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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 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."

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"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."

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"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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"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 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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"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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"I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry."

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