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For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
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Millville
New Jersey
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I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.
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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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Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.
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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'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.
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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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There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.
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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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I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.
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If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.
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We need a world-wide Department of Peace.
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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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World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.
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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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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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I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.
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We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.
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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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Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.
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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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