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From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those

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. – Diane Wakoski

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But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. – Diane Wakoski

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I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. – Diane Wakoski

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. – John Colville

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – Rita Dove

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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