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We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Future
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Alchemical
Might
Symbiotic
Humans
Vast
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Powers
Needs
Minds
Mind
Consciousness
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What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.
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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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Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.
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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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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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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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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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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 am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.
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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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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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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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I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.
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I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.
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