Wakoski, Diane (Vol. 7) | Wakoski, Diane 1937–
Wakoski, Diane 1937–
Ms Wakoski, an American poet, writes personal, confessional poetry, notably angry, exuberant, and original. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13-16, rev. ed.)
Diane Wakoski can be a bit obsessive … (her hang-up is with her compulsion to go for males who are strictly Bad News) but she is always … witty about it and leavens the loaf of her neurosis with imagination and wry humor. (p. 406)
She is a poet who has always written too much and sometimes too glibly; there have been times in her career when she found it impossible to resist the merely cute and other times when Vindictiveness seemed the name of her Muse but, for all these shortcomings, she is a real poet with honesty and great natural gifts…. (pp. 406-07)
George Hitchcock, in Western Humanities Review (copyright, 1974, University of Utah), Autumn, 1974.
Wakoski strives for a voice that...
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