Background
Wakoski was born in Whittier, California and studied at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts, where she participated in Thom Gunn"s poetry workshops.
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A collection of poems (published in 1966) by one of the brightest and youngest of American poets. Her work has appeared in such magazines as the New Yorker,The Nation, Poetry, The San Francisco Review and many more. Berkeley graduate, married, New York Jr. High School Teacher and may still teach!
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(Poetry. THE DIAMOND DOG, Diane Wakoski's nineteenth colle...)
Poetry. THE DIAMOND DOG, Diane Wakoski's nineteenth collection, calls into being a world where the scientific and the mytho-poetic interact and combine. Here, in her first collection of entirely new work since Argonaut Rose (Black Sparrow Press, 1998), planets move in the perturbed ellipses of warped, Einsteinian space. Yet too, in the realm of the Diamond Dog, stars still turn in their Ptolemaic spheres. Here, the air can be Linden green, Lorca green, and the stem of a carnation can be the line on an astronomer's spectrograph, the signature of oxygen in some distant star.
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Limited to 750 bound trade copies. In Our Time, Catalogue 140, item no. 274 . Designed by Barbara Martin and printed by Mackintosh and Young & Edwards Brothers Inc. A collection of "deep image" poetry associated with the Beats by Diane Wakoski. Minimal shelf wear. 117, 5 pages. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 8vo..
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A sustained meditation on personal past and the secret nature of reality, this multi-volume work unearths a wealth of hidden meanings from the first-person-historical dimensions recording a Southern California girlhood, moves to Berkeley, Nevada and Michigan, and the chain of great expectations developed along the way--built out of Hollywood movie dreams ("imagining our lives, instead of living them") and inevitably shattered by disappointing and betraying real-life relationships. The bittersweet and ironic evocations of the failed loves of her life make this among the most moving as well as revealing of Wakoski's books.
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(From "His Bedroom Voice": He leaves a message on our ans...)
From "His Bedroom Voice": He leaves a message on our answering machine, a simple one, plain, expedient, he needs a letter of recommendation, but as I listen without much thought/I realize I don't mind anything he asks of me
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First edition, one of 250 bound copies numbered and signed by the author. In Our Time, Catalogue 140, item no. 274 . Designed by Barbara Martin and printed by Mackintosh and Young & Edwards Brothers Inc. A collection of "deep image" poetry associated with the Beats by Diane Wakoski. Minimal shelf wear. 117, 5 pages. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, clear plastic dust jacket.. 8vo..
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Wakoski was born in Whittier, California and studied at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts, where she participated in Thom Gunn"s poetry workshops.
Bachelor in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1960.
Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism. lieutenant was there that she first read many of the modernist poets who would influence her writing style.
Her early writings were considered part of the deep image movement that also included the works of Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, and Clayton Eshleman, among others
She also cites William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski as influences. Her poetry career began in New York City, where she moved with Louisiana Monte Young in 1960, and lived until 1973.
Her later work is more personal and conversational in the Williams mode. Wakoski is married to the photographer Robert Turney, and is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.
Wakoski"s literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.
Her work has been published in more than twenty collections and many slim volumes of poetry. She is best known for a series of poems collectively known as "The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems." Many of her books have been published in fine editions by.
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(From "His Bedroom Voice": He leaves a message on our ans...)
(From "His Bedroom Voice": He leaves a message on our ans...)
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