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Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.

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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My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.
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Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there is real incredible work [of art] that comes out of it. Never forget that.
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I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role.
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The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me.
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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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There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.
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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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My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.
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For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.
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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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The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.
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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 my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.
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My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.
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Personally there is first: imagination second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
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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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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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What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.
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I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.
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Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.
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