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Diane Wakoski

Autore di The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems

58+ opere 709 membri 5 recensioni 3 preferito

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Fonte dell'immagine: Portrait of Diane Wakoski at MOMA by Elsa Dorfman

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Opere di Diane Wakoski

Inside the Blood Factory (1967) 45 copie
The Magellanic Clouds (1970) 40 copie
Trilogy (1974) 40 copie
Medea the Sorceress (1990) 36 copie
Smudging (1972) 31 copie
Jason the Sailor (1993) 22 copie
Argonaut Rose (1997) 20 copie
The man who shook hands (1978) 19 copie
Toward a New Poetry (1980) 19 copie
The Rings of Saturn (1982) 17 copie
Cap of Darkness (1980) 14 copie
Greed: Parts 5 - 7 (1968) 11 copie
Greed: Parts 8, 9, 11 (1973) 11 copie
Four Young Lady Poets (1962) 11 copie
SPARROW 3: Form Is an Extension of Content (1972) — Poet — 3 copie
Greed (1974) 3 copie
Coins & Coffins (1962) 2 copie
The Diamond Dog: Poems (1793) 2 copie
Two Poems (1981) 2 copie
Lady Of Light (2018) 2 copie
Bay of Angels (2013) 2 copie
Software 1 copia
The Frame 1 copia
Abalone 1 copia

Opere correlate

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Collaboratore — 774 copie
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Collaboratore — 329 copie
The Best American Poetry 1996 (1996) — Collaboratore — 171 copie
Poems from the Women's Movement (2009) — Collaboratore — 109 copie
Contemporary Poets (1975) — Prefazione — 33 copie
Inward Journey (1987) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Sulfur 6 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Southern California Anthology: Volume XI (1993) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
In'hui, No.9 — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1937-08-03
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Whittier, California, USA
Luogo di residenza
Whittier, California, USA
Lansing, Michigan, USA
Istruzione
University of California, Berkeley
Attività lavorative
bookstore clerk
teacher
Premi e riconoscimenti
Michigan Author Award (2003)

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A reread of a favorite collection of poems by one of my favorite poets. [a:Diane Wakoski|22012|Diane Wakoski|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1314383416p2/22012.jpg] explores so many themes in this collection: the multiplicity of the world, truth, justice, magic, loss, making lemonade from lemons. Her perceptions are keen, and her humor is also on full display. For example, her poem "George Washington Writes Home about Harvesting His Hemp" begins with these lines:

I won't take a lot of shit
in the name of love,
smoking it
or eating it,
or shoveling it for you

Or then there is the line that really resonated, from the poem "On the Subject of Roses,"

But no one should have to choose between Mozart and Beethoven

That is the same modern-day debate as Beatles vs. Rolling Stones. I love them both. Ms. Wakoski has wonderful command of language and wordplay.
… (altro)
 
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bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Lots of I -I - I confusion interspersed with depressing leave-takings.

My favorite comes in WHISTLING:

Walking out to my car
the shadows of the parking lot
like sleeping alligators
are matter-of-fact
realities.
 
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m.belljackson | Oct 7, 2022 |
 
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laurenbufferd | 1 altra recensione | Nov 14, 2016 |
Hell, yes! This book will get you through any bad break-up.
 
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honkytonkgirl | 1 altra recensione | Nov 9, 2006 |

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Opere
58
Opere correlate
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Utenti
709
Popolarità
#35,752
Voto
3.8
Recensioni
5
ISBN
63
Preferito da
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