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Diane Wakoski

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.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it’s true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

– Diane Wakoski

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.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare’s sonnets.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

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.

– Diane Wakoski

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.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

I think that’s what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it’s spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

I am not political as a person.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

– Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski Poetry

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet’s language at that point in history, and so it’s even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

– Diane Wakoski

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