Quotes about Diane Wakoski

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out...

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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue,...

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

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Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in...

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So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and...

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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus...

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Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try...

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One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they...

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My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that,...

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I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I...

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