Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937 in Whittier , California ) is an American poet and university professor .
Life
Wakoski studied English at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA English). After her literary debut in 1962 with the volume of poetry Coins & Coffins , she began to work as a teacher at Junior High School in New York City in 1963 , where she worked until 1966. From 1965 to 1967 Wakoski was married to the photographer Shepard Sherbell (1944-2018).
After receiving a scholarship from the Fulbright program , she began to work full-time as a poet and has published numerous anthologies over time such as The George Washington Poems (1967), Inside the Blood Factory (1968), The Diamond Merchant (1968), The Lament of the Lady Bank Dick (1969), Motorcycle Betrayal Poems (1971), On Barbara's Shore (1971), Smudging (1972), Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch (1973), The Wandering Tattler (1974), Abalone (1974) and Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands (1975).
In addition, she worked temporarily as a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City, before accepting a professorship for creative writing at Michigan State University in 1976 . After the poetry volumes Waiting for the King of Spain (1976), Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears (1977) and Trophies (1979), a collection of essays was published under the title Towards a New Poetry (1980).
Other anthologies were Cap of Darkness (1980), Making a Sacher Torte (1981), The Lady Who Drove Me to the Airport (1982), The Magician's Feastletters (1982), The Collected Greed: Parts 1-13 (1984), Rings of Saturn (1986), Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962–1987 (1988), Medea the Sorceress (1991), Jason the Sailor (1993), The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), Argonaut Rose (1998), and The Butcher's Apron: New & Selected Poems Including Greed: Part 14 (2000).
Although Diane Wakoski's work can only be attributed to the Beat Generation to a limited extent , she counts William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg in particular among her most important influences, but also Robinson Jeffers and Federico García Lorca .
Web links
- Diane Wakoski in the nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Tate: Blood of a Poet Box 1965-8 by Eleanor Antin - The Poets
- ^ Q&A: American Poetry - Diane Wakoski
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wakoski, Diane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Whittier , California |