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The Emerald City of Las Vegas

By: Diane Wakoski

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Dedicated to America's mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together pieces of fragmented memory among images of Las Vegas casinos and the green splendor of Oz with its magical shoes.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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0876859716

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9780876859711

Lady of Light

New Poems

By: Diane Wakoski

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Lady of Light

New Poems

By: Diane Wakoski

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.

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1934695580

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9781934695586

Argonaut Rose

By: Diane Wakoski

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Argonaut Rose

By: Diane Wakoski

This volume in the The Archaeology of Movies & Books continues Wakoski's mythic quest for meaning from personal history.

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1574230468

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9781574230468

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch

The Complete Motorcycle Betrayal Poems

By: Diane Wakoski

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Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch

The Complete Motorcycle Betrayal Poems

By: Diane Wakoski

The liberating power of anger has rarely felt so good and healing as in this complete collection of a landmark in feminist poetry. "She digs her teeth into the slaveries of woman, she cries them aloud with such fulminating energy that the chains begin to melt of themselves. Reaching into the hive of her angers, she plucks out images of fear and delight that are transparent yet loaded with the darknesses of life. Diane Wakoski is an important and moving poet."--The New York Times In 1971, Diane Wakoski published The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems to tremendous acclaim when she was just thirty-three years old. In the decades that followed, she wrote additional "betrayal" poems, which are now collected here in one volume for the first time. Relevant, moving--at times shocking--it is Wakoski's honesty and bravery as an artist that continues to astonish, delight, inspire, and liberate readers. Wakoski responds to betrayal in a variety of ways including fantasies such as drilling bullet holes into the bodies of unfaithful lovers. But even her anger can be winking, as in the book's sly dedication to "all those men who betrayed me at one time or another, in hopes they will fall off their motorcycles and break their necks." There is joy here because it is self-knowledge that the writer seeks, as in the collection's title poem: So some white wolves and I will sing on your grave, old man and dance for the joy of your death. "Is this an angry statement?" "No, it is a statement of joy." "Will the sun shine again?" "Yes, yes, yes," because I'm going to dance dance dance Diane Wakoski's art as a confessional, storytelling poet has rarely been equaled. Her revelations become shared emotional truth with readers. The collection's new introduction by poet and Green Mountains Review editor Elizabeth Powell gives context to the long wake of Wakoski's inspiring influence on generations of readers. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch is for anyone who ever lost a love and wishes to embrace the freedom, rather than the pain, it can bring.

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Black Sparrow Press

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157423255X

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9781574232554

The Diamond Dog

Poems

By: Diane Wakoski

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The Diamond Dog

Poems

By: Diane Wakoski

Poetry. THE DIAMOND DOG, Diane Wakoski's nineteenth collection, calls into being a world where the scientific and the mytho-poetic interact and combine. Here, in her first collection of entirely new work since Argonaut Rose (Black Sparrow Press, 1998), planets move in the perturbed ellipses of warped, Einsteinian space. Yet too, in the realm of the Diamond Dog, stars still turn in their Ptolemaic spheres. Here, the air can be Linden green, Lorca green, and the stem of a carnation can be the line on an astronomer's spectrograph, the signature of oxygen in some distant star.

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1934695157

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Jason the Sailor

By: Diane Wakoski

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Jason the Sailor

By: Diane Wakoski

Great expectations developed from Hollywood movie dreams ("imagining our lives, instead of living them") are 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 Ms. Wakoski's books.

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Archaeology of Movies and Book

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0876859023

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9780876859025

The Butcher's Apron

New & Selected Poems, Including "Greed: Part 14"

By: Diane Wakoski

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The Butcher's Apron

New & Selected Poems, Including "Greed: Part 14"

By: Diane Wakoski

as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life "All the poems in this collection," Diane Wakoski writes, "describe the ongoing process of discovering beauty and acquiring an aesthetic sensibility via food"--seeing and savoring it, cooking and sharing it, reaching out to all creation and drawing it in, devouring it, lapping it up, literally becoming one with it. In the title poem, chosen by Adrienne Rich for inclusion in Best American Poetry, the poet recalls an early memory of delight in pure color--"Red stains on a clean white bib. . . crimson blood on canvas." Blood and crisp cotton as ink and paper, bread and wine as flesh and blood, the meal as art and as sacrament--this is the stuff of The Butcher's Apron, a feast for lovers of "the jewels of life.

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270

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David R. Godine Publisher

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1574231448

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9781574231441

Emerald Ice

Selected Poems, 1962-1987

By: Diane Wakoski

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Emerald Ice

Selected Poems, 1962-1987

By: Diane Wakoski

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." From Amazon.

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0876857446

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The Emerald City of Las Vegas

By: Diane Wakoski

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The Emerald City of Las Vegas

By: Diane Wakoski

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Argonaut Rose

By: Diane Wakoski

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Argonaut Rose

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This volume in the The Archaeology of Movies & Books continues Wakoski's mythic quest for meaning from personal history.

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The Butcher's Apron

New & Selected Poems, Including "Greed: Part 14"

By: Diane Wakoski

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New & Selected Poems, Including "Greed: Part 14"

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Jason the Sailor

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Jason the Sailor

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0876859031

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Anne Sexton

A Biography

By: Diane Middlebrook

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Anne Sexton

A Biography

By: Diane Middlebrook

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.

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Vintage

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0679741828

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Book's by Diane Wakoski

The Emerald City of Las Vegas

The Emerald City of Las Vegas

Lady of Light

Lady of Light

Argonaut Rose

Argonaut Rose

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch

The Diamond Dog

The Diamond Dog

Jason the Sailor

Jason the Sailor

The Butcher's Apron

The Butcher's Apron

Emerald Ice

Emerald Ice

The Emerald City of Las Vegas

The Emerald City of Las Vegas

Argonaut Rose

Argonaut Rose

The Butcher's Apron

The Butcher's Apron

Jason the Sailor

Jason the Sailor

Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

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