Author: Diane Wakoski

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

- Diane Wakoski

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Diane Wakoski

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

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

- Diane Wakoski

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

- Diane Wakoski

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

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

- Diane Wakoski

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