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I took my vow to poetry this is where I'm going to be. These are my people this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
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Millville
New Jersey
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Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.
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Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination.
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For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.
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World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.
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Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.
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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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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity.
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I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.
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The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.
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I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.
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Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.
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The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.
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I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'
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This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.
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Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.
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My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?
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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 am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.
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