“American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.” DifferentLiteratureBreakOneselfPoetry IsDefiningTabooAmerican Poetry Author:Diane Wakoski
“Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.” LanguageCivilizationEssentialsEssenceStructureMythTalesPoetry IsRitualTribes Author:Diane Wakoski
“Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.” FactsCarePoliticalLiteraturePowerFeministDon't CareI Don't CarePoetry IsInterpretation Author:Diane Wakoski
“Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.” SometimesRaceWrittenGenderMythLandscapePoetry IsAmerican Poetry Author:Diane Wakoski
“But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.” ThinkingUseLiteratureEventsCurrentsContemporaryPoetry IsVenuesCurrent Events Author:Diane Wakoski
“High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.” ArtTogetherCultureLiteratureModernLowsPostsPoetry IsExcludedModern ArtHighs And LowsAmerican Poetry Author:Diane Wakoski
“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.” ThinkingYearsUseLiteratureLanguageInterestingPoetExcitingComplexesPoetry IsMost InterestingGreat PoetGreat PoetryYeats Author:Diane Wakoski
