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Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are more sound oriented. Or I'll try to incorporate those languages and occasions somehow.
Anne Waldman
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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
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Millville
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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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How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.
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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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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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There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.
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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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