American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.Diane Wakoski
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
Diane Wakoski
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
Diane Wakoski
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.
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The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.
Diane Wakoski
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
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