Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski ( born August 3, 1937 in Whittier, California) is an American poet and high school teacher.
Life
Wakoski studied English at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA English) from. After her literary debut in 1962 with the poetry collection Coins & Coffins, they started in 1963 as a teacher at a junior high school in New York City to work and worked there until 1966.
After receiving a grant from the Fulbright Program, she began full-time work as a poet and as time has published numerous anthologies 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, it was for a time as a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City, before she accepted a professorship in creative writing at Michigan State University in 1976. In the following period (1979 ) was published by the poetry volumes Waiting for the King of Spain (1976 ), Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears (1977) and Trophies also a collection of essays under the title Towards a New Poetry ( 1980).
More 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 ), ring 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 Wakoskis work is only partly attributable to the beat generation, it is one particular William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to its major influences, but also Robinson Jeffers and Federico García Lorca.