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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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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
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Millville
New Jersey
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Somehow
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Fear
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