But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. – Diane Wakoski
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski
But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. – Diane Wakoski
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poets language at that point in history, and so its even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. – Diane Wakoski
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. – Diane Wakoski