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Diane Wakoski

"Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today."

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"Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today."

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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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"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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"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
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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."
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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 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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"American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet."
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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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"Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground."
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"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."
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