These new poems strongly affirm the unusual talent and technical ability that won Diane Wakoski dramatic praise for her first collection.

Inside the Blood Factory

Diane Wakoski

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Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Black Sparrow

Trilogy

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.\nAbout these poems, Wakoski writes: "My themes are loss, justice, truth, transformation, the duality of the world, the possibilities of magic, and the creation of beauty out of ugliness. My language is dramatic, oral, and as American as I can make it. I am impatient with stupidity, bureaucracy, and organizations. Poetry, for me, is the supreme art of the individual using language to show how special, different, and wonderful his perceptions are. With verve and finesse. With discursive precision. And with utter contempt for pettiness of imagination or spirit."\nEmerald Ice is a contemporary classic, the essential poems of a uniquely American female sensibility.

Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987

Black Sparrow Pr

Medea the Sorceress (The Archaeology of Movies and Books, V. 1)

A sustained meditation on personal past and the secret nature of reality, this multi-volume work unearths a wealth of hidden meanings from the first-person-historical dimensions recording a Southern California girlhood, moves to Berkeley, Nevada and Michigan, and the chain of great expectations developed along the way--built out of Hollywood movie dreams ("imagining our lives, instead of living them") and inevitably shattered by disappointing and betraying real-life relationships. The bittersweet and ironic evocations of the failed loves of her life make this among the most moving as well as revealing of Wakoski's books.

Black Sparrow Press

Diane Wakoski's "Lady of Light" offers all new poems - continuing her lifetime tropes, sprawling forms, and general "bad assery." In "Now She Has Disappeared in Water" she mourns the death of her sister, Marilyn, in long series of lament, recall and sometimes hard self-examination. In a bonus book within a book, "Rhodochrosite Light," she writes everyday as she watches Daniel Barenboim play Beethoven on DVDs during Fall 2016. From liking "a man in a suit and tie" to stating "music reveals everything," she is both audience and creator, an interweaving of pure esthetic response, daily life and memory of her earlier years at the piano. "Lady of Light" is a tour de force.

Lady Of Light

Anhinga Press

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