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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
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Millville
New Jersey
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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 think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'
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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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Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation.
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You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.
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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 the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.
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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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Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination.
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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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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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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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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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I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.
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Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.
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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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My teachers were often very eccentric.
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I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.
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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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