I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went … - Diane Wakoski

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Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people. . . the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer. . . not music that is confined to the merely personal.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

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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.

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Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

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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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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.

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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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