Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
Diane Wakoski Quotes
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
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| Birth: | 3rd August, 1937 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
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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