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Author: 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.
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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Diane Wakoski
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.
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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Diane Wakoski
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Diane Wakoski
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