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.
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| Birth: | 3rd August, 1937 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Diane Wakoski was born in Whittier, California. She is an American poet. She is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts. Her selected poems, Emerald Ice, won the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America in 1989. She is best known for a series of poems collectively known as "The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems."
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