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Diane Wakoski Quotes Page 2 of 2Diane Wakoski 1937 - Nationality: American Category: Poet Subcategory: American Poet
| 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. | I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. | 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. | High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. | I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. | But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. |
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