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November 12, 1970,
Diane Wakoski.

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[INTERPOSING VOICES]

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Good evening, and welcome
to tonight's reading.

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I would like to announce first
that Diane Wakoski, our reader,

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has agreed to stay 20 or 30
minutes after the reading

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to chat with anybody who'd
like to come down and talk.

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It seems very fitting
that the first poet

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to read at Pima College
should be a woman,

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and it's very fortunate
for us that that poet

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should be Diane Wakoski.

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She was born in
Whittier, California,

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and she graduated from the
University of California,

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Berkeley in 1960.

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Much of her formation as a poet
took place in the late '50s

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in San Francisco, where exciting
and important things were

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happening for American poetry.

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She now lives in New
York City, another place

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where exciting and important
things happen for poetry.

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One of the earliest
recognitions of her talent

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came in 1962 when
her work appeared

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in a volume called
Four Young Lady

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Poets, edited by LeRoi Jones.

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A sampling of titles from
her own collections of poetry

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includes Coins and Coffins, The
George Washington Poems, Greed,

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Inside the Blood
Factory, Some Poems

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for the Buddha's Birthday,
The Magellanic Clouds,

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and The Moon Has a
Complicated Geography.

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In recent years, her
work has appeared

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in several of the most
significant anthologies,

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including Technicians of
the Sacred, Young American

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Poets, Contemporary American
Poets, and American Literary

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Anthology II.

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Audiences throughout
the country remember her

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not only for her
youthful appearance,

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but especially for the
youthful energy of her poems,

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it's a great pleasure to
introduce Diane Wakoski.

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[APPLAUSE]

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