“I am not political as a person.”
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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
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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.
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
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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.
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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
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