Diane Wakoski Quotes - Yenra

Ideas about poetry

Diane Wakoski at Michigan State University

"The way to develop our own critical faculties is to read many kinds of poetry."

"Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it."

Emerald Ice : Selected Poems 1962-1987 - 3 Of Swords, An Apology, Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurences, Belly Dancer, The Birds Of Paradise Being Very Plain Birds, Blessing Ode For A Man With Fishbones Around His Neck, Blue Monday, Braised Leeks & Framboise, Breakfast, The Buddha Inherits 6 Cars On His Birthday, Cannon Beach, Civilization, Cobra Lilies In The Supermarket, Coins And Coffins Under My Bed, Dancing On The Grave Of A Son Of A Bitch, Driving Gloves, The Duchess Potatoes, Elizabeth And The Golden Oranges, Emerald Ice, Exorcism, Fanny's Cold Blue Eyes, The Father Of My Country, The Few Silver Scales, Fifteen Poems For A Lunar Eclipse ..., Sels. Only, Fifteen Poems For A Lunar Eclipse, Sels. Only, Fifteen Poems, Sels. Only, Filling The Boxes Of Joseph Cornell, Follow That Stagecoach, From A Go To Be, If You Can Find It, George Washington Slept Here, George Washington Writes Home About Harvesting, George Washington's Camp Cups, George Washington: The Whole Man, The Girls, The Helms Bakery Man, The Hermit, How Do You Tell A Story, I Have Had To Learn To Live With My Face, The Ice Eagle, In The Secret Room, East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon, Incident Of Cherries And Peaches, Inside Out, Joyce Carol Oates Plays The Saturn Piano, Justice Is Reason Enough, Life Is Like A Game Of Cards, Love Letter Postmarked Van Beethoven, Love Passes Beyond The Incredible Hawk Of Innocence, The Magellanic Clouds, Making A Sacher Torte, The Mechanic, The Moon Explodes In Autumn As A Milkweed Pod, My Aunt Ella Meets The Buddha On His Birthday, My Knees Go Before The Firing Squad At Dawn, My Trouble, Night Rides Of My Neighbor, Lorca, That Prevent Sleep, Ode To A Lebansese Crock Of Olives, On Barbara's Shore, On The Subject Of Roses, Ordinary Poem, Overnight Projects With Wood, Overweight Poem, Patriotic Poem, The Photos, The Pink Dress, Placing A $2 Bet For A Man Who Will Never Go, Poem For A Little Boy On The Buddha's Birthday, Poet At The Carpenter's Bench, Precisely, Not Violets, Precision, Preface, The Pumpkin Pie, Or Reassurances Are Always False ..., Reaching Out With The Hands Of The Sun, Recognizing That My Wrists Always Have Salmon, Red Runner, Reminded Of One Of Those Girls I Never Was, Removed From Natural Habitat, Rescue Poem, The Ring, The Ring Of Irony, Ringless, Screw, A Technical Love Poem, Searching For The Canto Fermo, Sestina From The Home Gardener, Silver, The Skier, Slicing Oranges For Jeremiah, Smudging, Some Brilliant Sky, Some Constantly Besieged Castle, Sometimes Even My Knees Smile, Sour Milk, Standing At The Door, Steely Silence, The Story Of Richard Maxfield, Sun, Tango-ing, Telling You True, About My Fantasy Life, Thanking My Mother For Piano Lessons, There's Plenty Of Anguish At The Railroad, Those Mythical Silver Pears, To An Autocrat, To The Thin And Elegant Woman Who Resides Inside, Un Morceau En Forme De Poire, Uncle Sam In The White House, The Universes, Virtuoso Literature For Two And Four Hands, Walking Past Paul Blackburn's Apt. On 7th St, A Warning To The Man In Receiving At Sears, What Happened, When You Throw Amber Into The Well Of The Moon, Why My Mother Likes Liberace, Wind Secrets, Winter Ode, A Winter Poem For Tony Weinburger ..., With Words

The Emerald City of Las Vegas - Aging, Alexander, Angel Wire Or Receiving A Surprise Resurrection Telegram, Anna's Hummingbird, Autumn, The Blue Dress/airmail Letter, Botticelli's Edges, Broken Ice, The Butcher's Apron, Butterflies Are Shadow Shapes, Cardinal At The Feeder, Champagne Light, Closet Oaks, Craig's California Fire, Craig's Hummingbirds, David's Letter, Deer Gods, Dogs (1), The Emerald Book, Emerald City, Examining Money, Eye-voice, Fame, Flower Masks, Flower Parts, For Catherine Who Says She Is Wuthering Heights, For Linda's Mother, Frightening Green, From Shells To Radishes, Geoffrey Bends To Tie My Shoe, George Washington At Sam's Town, Hansel And Gretel, Healing Goddesses, Hot Flickers/movie Light, I Come To The Poetry Reading Wearing My New Silver Shoes, I Hammer, Ice Walking, In St. Louis, Ireland, Jewel Leaves, Kelly As The Mage, Light, Lily Hands, Looking For Beethoven In Las Vegas, Luxor, Malachite, Mary's Diner, Masks, Medea's Children, The Moon Slides Her Pointed Slipper Into The Darkening Sky, The Motorcyclist In The Woods, Mystere, The New Moon, A Scar, Night, Orchids Growing On The Green Felt, Our Lady Of The Chanterelles, Parkin, Queen Anne's Lace, Roller Skate Jazz, The Rosy Trickster, Old Coyote, The Sadness On Robert's Face, Saluting The Sun, Seeing The World Through Hopper's Glasses, She Bends To Offer Me Running Shoes, Size, Sketching Flowers, Slot Machines, So Cold In Winter, Sound Track, Starlight, Stories About My Life, Summer Light, The Sun Becomes The Moon, Swan's Neck, Tea Ceremony, Unpermitted Silence, Violets, Waiting For Jason, Watching The Drinkers Of Grand Marnier At The Peanut Barrel, Wearing The Silver Shoes, What Was It Like?, White Cat, White Las Vegas, Winter Sunshine, Your Sister In Jail