American Poetry

I have always loved

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry. Eavan Boland

Someone said, in a

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it’s cooked, it comes from Poe. Frederic Tuten

Kerouac: You\’re ruining American

Kerouac: You’re ruining American poetry, O’Hara. O’Hara: That’s more than you ever did for it, Kerouac Frank O’Hara

Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word. Forrest Gander

Do not go gentle

Do not go gentle into that good night. Dylan Thomas

I definitely wish to

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Diane Wakoski

American poetry, like American

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. Diane Wakoski

Distinctly American poetry is

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. Diane Wakoski

From reading a previous

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. Diane Wakoski

American poetry is always

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one’s right to be different and often to break taboos. Diane Wakoski