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If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Life
Meditative
Integrate
Integrating
Considering
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There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.
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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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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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Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity.
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I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman.
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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'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.
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I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.
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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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Personally there is first: imagination second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to nature.
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