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We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Awaken
Consciousness
Greater
Think
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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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For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.
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I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.
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The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.
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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.
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How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.
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I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.
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There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.
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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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Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.
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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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I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.
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A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.
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I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.
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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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When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.
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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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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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For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.
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