Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoskiis an American poet. Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 August 1937
CountryUnited States of America
sex attitude thinking
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.
substance source concerned
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.
writing thinking political
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.
thinking current-events use
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
eye creating add
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch changes in the narrative-line.
dream flower arguing
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.
women writing thinking
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.
body celebrate-life poet
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
war people black
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.
different literature defining
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
born process involvement
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
writing interesting firsts
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
break defining oneself poetry
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
art mean poetry-is
Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.