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Suggest Revision: I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
 
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Suggest Revision: My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.
 
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Suggest Revision: One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
 
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Suggest Revision: Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.
 
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Suggest Revision: PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
 
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Suggest Revision: So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.
 
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Suggest Revision: Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
 
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Suggest Revision: Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
 
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Suggest Revision: But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
 
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Suggest Revision: Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
 
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