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We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
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Millville
New Jersey
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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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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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The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.
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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.
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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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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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When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.
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The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”
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Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.
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I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.
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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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World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.
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I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.
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I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.
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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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The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.
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I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.
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For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.
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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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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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