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Diane 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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