I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.
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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.Diane Wakoski
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
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I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
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Poems come from incomplete knowledge.
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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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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
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