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I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Raised
Democratic
Sense
Egalitarianism
Vistas

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It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.
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If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.
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I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.
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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.
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I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There's an elegant quality to the wild mind.
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A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.
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I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.
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Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.
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The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.
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There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.
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I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.
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If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.
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I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.
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We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.
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[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.
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I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.
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Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are more sound oriented. Or I'll try to incorporate those languages and occasions somehow.
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