Diane Wakoski: May 9, 1969
The Poetry Center presents Diane Wakoski reading from The George Washington Poems, The Magellanic Clouds, and The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, and other works.
- Originally Recorded By
- The Poetry Center
- Location
- A&I 109, SFSC
- Date
- 05/09/1969
- Total Run Time
- [1:04:31]
- Contributor
- Mark Linenthal
- Rights
- ©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
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- Introductory remarks chronicling the achievements, publications, and career of Diane Wakoski as well as commentary on poets as aphasics by Mark Linenthal (00:02)
- Remarks on communication and poetry (04:22)
- "Rescue Poem" (04:47)
- Remarks on gender roles, identity politics, and societal rules (08:02)
- "Sense of the Stage Coach" (09:00)
- Remarks on the George Washington Poems (13:55)
- "Sestina from the Home Gardener" (15:03)
- Introduces "George Washington writes home about harvesting his hemp" (18:11)
- "George Washington writes home about harvesting his hemp" (18:28)
- "Black Uncle Sam and Poor Ofay, Me" (19:57)
- Begins to introduce next poem but realizes her notes are missing (22:28)
- "With Words" (23:17)
- Introduces "Ringless" with anecdote about Gary Snyder (25:58)
- "Ringless" (26:04)
- Remarks on small press publishing (29:26)
- "The Magellanic Clouds" (29:57)
- "I can taste time on my tongue like salt" (34:41)
- Introduces "In Gratitude to Beethoven" (36:55)
- "In Gratitude to Beethoven" (37:18)
- Introduces "Love Letter Postmark Van Beethoven" with joke about being shot in the back (42:08)
- IntroducesThe Motorcycle Betrayal Poems (42:30)
- "Love Letter Postmark Van Beethoven" (42:43)
- Remarks on "The Ice Eagle," Egyptian mythology, and her creative process (46:38)
- "The Ice Eagle" (47:50)
- Introduces "Reaching Out with the Hands of the Sun" with brief discussion of rules and epigraphs in poetry (52:33)
- Epigraph to "Reaching Out with the Hands of the Sun" with quote from W.B. Yeats' "Adam's Curse" (53:37)
- "Reaching Out with the Hands of the Sun" (54:03)
- "A Poet Recognizing the Echo of the Voice" in three parts (58:23)
- "The Isolation of Beautiful Women" with epigraph from an interview with Artie Shaw (59:24)
- "Movement to Establish my Identity" with epigraph from W.B. Yeats "To A Young Beauty" (1:01:12)
- "Beauty" with epigraph from W.B. Yeats "For Anne Gregory" (1:02:17)
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