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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
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Consciousness
Greater
Think
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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.
Anne Waldman
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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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As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.
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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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Personally there is first: imagination second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
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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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[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 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 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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There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.
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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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I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.
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As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.
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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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My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
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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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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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Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.
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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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For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.
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