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Diane Wakoski

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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.


— Diane Wakoski


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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.


— Diane Wakoski


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Doubleday.  
Cap of darkness: including looking for the king of Spain & Pachelbel's Canon. Black Sparrow Press.

She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism. Diane Wakoski (born August 3 1937) is an American poet. Wakowski is primarily associated with the deep image poets as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.

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