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.
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American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.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.
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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
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American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
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I came in the back door, so to speak, because my highest degree is a Bachelor's degree, but I've taught at Michigan State University since 1976.
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