Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876857441
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"In 1988, at the age of fifty, Diana Wakoski selected the poems in Emerald Ice from her first sixteen books of poetry. Here, returned to print at last, are all the famous (and infamous) lyrics, series, and narratives that established Wakoski as a mythologizer of sex and self, a fierce free-verse imagist, and one of the most important and controversial poets to come out of California in the 1960s." From Amazon.
Emerald Ice
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876857441
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"In 1988, at the age of fifty, Diana Wakoski selected the poems in Emerald Ice from her first sixteen books of poetry. Here, returned to print at last, are all the famous (and infamous) lyrics, series, and narratives that established Wakoski as a mythologizer of sex and self, a fierce free-verse imagist, and one of the most important and controversial poets to come out of California in the 1960s." From Amazon.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876857441
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"In 1988, at the age of fifty, Diana Wakoski selected the poems in Emerald Ice from her first sixteen books of poetry. Here, returned to print at last, are all the famous (and infamous) lyrics, series, and narratives that established Wakoski as a mythologizer of sex and self, a fierce free-verse imagist, and one of the most important and controversial poets to come out of California in the 1960s." From Amazon.
Inside the Blood Factory
The Butcher's Apron
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574231441
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life "All the poems in this collection," Diane Wakoski writes, "describe the ongoing process of discovering beauty and acquiring an aesthetic sensibility via food"--seeing and savoring it, cooking and sharing it, reaching out to all creation and drawing it in, devouring it, lapping it up, literally becoming one with it. In the title poem, chosen by Adrienne Rich for inclusion in Best American Poetry, the poet recalls an early memory of delight in pure color--"Red stains on a clean white bib. . . crimson blood on canvas." Blood and crisp cotton as ink and paper, bread and wine as flesh and blood, the meal as art and as sacrament--this is the stuff of The Butcher's Apron, a feast for lovers of "the jewels of life."
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574231441
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life "All the poems in this collection," Diane Wakoski writes, "describe the ongoing process of discovering beauty and acquiring an aesthetic sensibility via food"--seeing and savoring it, cooking and sharing it, reaching out to all creation and drawing it in, devouring it, lapping it up, literally becoming one with it. In the title poem, chosen by Adrienne Rich for inclusion in Best American Poetry, the poet recalls an early memory of delight in pure color--"Red stains on a clean white bib. . . crimson blood on canvas." Blood and crisp cotton as ink and paper, bread and wine as flesh and blood, the meal as art and as sacrament--this is the stuff of The Butcher's Apron, a feast for lovers of "the jewels of life."
The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
Author: Elizabeth A. I. Powell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574232561
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The liberating power of anger has rarely felt so good and healing as in this complete collection of a landmark in feminist poetry."She digs her teeth into the slaveries of woman, she cries them aloud with such fulminating energy that the chains begin to melt of themselves. Reaching into the hive of her angers, she plucks out images of fear and delight that are transparent yet loaded with the darknesses of life. Diane Wakoski is an important and moving poet."--The New York TimesIn 1971, Diane Wakoski published The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems to tremendous acclaim. In the decades that followed, she wrote additional "betrayal" poems, which are now collected here in one volume for the first time. Relevant, moving--at times shocking--it is Wakoski's honesty and bravery as an artist that continues to astonish, delight, inspire, and liberate readers.Wakoski responds to betrayal in a variety of ways including fantasies such as drilling bullet holes into the bodies of unfaithful lovers. But even her anger can be winking, as in the book's sly dedication to "all those men who betrayed me at one time or another, in hopes they will fall off their motorcycles and break their necks." There is joy here because it is self-knowledge that the writer seeks, as in the collection's title poem: So some white wolves and I will sing on your grave, old man and dance for the joy of your death. "Is this an angry statement?" "No, it is a statement of joy." "Will the sun shine again?" "Yes, yes, yes," because I'm going to dance dance danceDiane Wakoski's art as a confessional, storytelling poet has rarely been equaled. Her revelations become shared emotional truth with readers. The collection's new introduction by poet and Green Mountains Review editor Elizabeth A. I. Powell gives context to the long wake of Wakoski's inspiring influence on generations of readers. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch is for anyone who ever lost a love and wishes to embrace the freedom, rather than the pain, it can bring.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574232561
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The liberating power of anger has rarely felt so good and healing as in this complete collection of a landmark in feminist poetry."She digs her teeth into the slaveries of woman, she cries them aloud with such fulminating energy that the chains begin to melt of themselves. Reaching into the hive of her angers, she plucks out images of fear and delight that are transparent yet loaded with the darknesses of life. Diane Wakoski is an important and moving poet."--The New York TimesIn 1971, Diane Wakoski published The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems to tremendous acclaim. In the decades that followed, she wrote additional "betrayal" poems, which are now collected here in one volume for the first time. Relevant, moving--at times shocking--it is Wakoski's honesty and bravery as an artist that continues to astonish, delight, inspire, and liberate readers.Wakoski responds to betrayal in a variety of ways including fantasies such as drilling bullet holes into the bodies of unfaithful lovers. But even her anger can be winking, as in the book's sly dedication to "all those men who betrayed me at one time or another, in hopes they will fall off their motorcycles and break their necks." There is joy here because it is self-knowledge that the writer seeks, as in the collection's title poem: So some white wolves and I will sing on your grave, old man and dance for the joy of your death. "Is this an angry statement?" "No, it is a statement of joy." "Will the sun shine again?" "Yes, yes, yes," because I'm going to dance dance danceDiane Wakoski's art as a confessional, storytelling poet has rarely been equaled. Her revelations become shared emotional truth with readers. The collection's new introduction by poet and Green Mountains Review editor Elizabeth A. I. Powell gives context to the long wake of Wakoski's inspiring influence on generations of readers. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch is for anyone who ever lost a love and wishes to embrace the freedom, rather than the pain, it can bring.
The George Washington Poems
The Emerald City of Las Vegas
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876859711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Dedicated to America's mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together pieces of fragmented memory among images of Las Vegas casinos and the green splendor of Oz with its magical shoes.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876859711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Dedicated to America's mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together pieces of fragmented memory among images of Las Vegas casinos and the green splendor of Oz with its magical shoes.
Argonaut Rose
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574230468
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This volume in the The Archaeology of Movies & Books continues Wakoski's mythic quest for meaning from personal history.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574230468
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This volume in the The Archaeology of Movies & Books continues Wakoski's mythic quest for meaning from personal history.
Smudging
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Poems.
Publisher: Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Poems.
Waiting for the King of Spain
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A collection of work by Diane Wakoski.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A collection of work by Diane Wakoski.