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- I Am
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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.
- Good
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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
- Culture
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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
- I Am
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I am not political as a person.
- Language
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
- Love
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Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
- Poetry
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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
- Poetry
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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.
- People
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I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.
- Poetry
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I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
- Men
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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.
- Problems
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My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.
- People
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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.
- Good
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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
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