Diane Wakoski has 50 books on Goodreads with ratings. Diane Wakoski’s most popular book is The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. She is the rain, waits in it for you, finds blood spotting her legs. from the long ride. Diane Wakoski, “Uneasy Rider” from The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems (New York: Simon Schuster, ). Copyright © by Diane Wakoski. Reprinted with the permission of the author. Source: The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems (). In early collections such as The George Washington Poems (), The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems (), Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch (), and Waiting for the King of Spain (), Wakoski recreates a “mythic self” through archetypal figures including George Washington, the king of Spain, the motorcycle mechanic, the “man in Receiving at Sears,” Beethoven, the “man with the gold .
Q A American Poetry: Diane Wakoski. This mythic self is a particularly American self (THE MOTORCYCLE BETRAYAL POEMS, ). She is a "California Girl," (MEDEA THE SORCERESS, ) someone who embodies many of the traits associated with archetypal Americans: healthy, sexually explicit, involved with movies, the Western landscape of desert. Biker poetry often embraces form. Fixed verse, free verse, folk song, Concrete poetry, Poetry slam and even "Baiku" a form of Haiku. Notable biker poets include Diane Wakoski, who authored a collection known as The motorcycle betrayal poems. Writers such as Colorado T. Sky and K Peddlar Bridges work with experimental poetry, however the biker. The Poetry Center presents Diane Wakoski reading from The George Washington Poems, The Magellanic Clouds, and The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, and other works. Originally Recorded By: The Poetry Center. Location: AI , SFSC. Date: 05/09/ Total Run Time: [].
Her selected poems, Emerald Ice, won the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America in She is famous for a series of poems collectively known as 'The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems'. Many of her books have been published in fine editions by Black Sparrow Press. Browse all poems and texts published on Diane Wakoski. The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. In The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, betrayal, always a theme in Wakoski’s poetry, becomes the central focus; the motorcycle mechanic represents all the men who have betrayed her. The tone is at times humorous, so much so that the poems may not be taken seriously enough, but there is also a sense of desperation. if the poems I write are about the fragments, the broken bridges, and unlit fences in my life. For the poet, the poem is not the measure of his love. It is the measure of all he’s lost, or never seen, or what has no life, unless he gives it life with words. from “With Words” ― Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems,
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