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Anne Waldman

Death Power Blues

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Allen is asking me about my dream within, again. Why so demanded? “A group called women. A group of women, some saying, walk away.” I hate the impunity of markers. Rust in the line                   frightened and bind hounded and bound this time: taxonomies games of blades thrashing, thrusting invasion, migration the scribe in the…

Martin Espada And Anne Waldman Poetry

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Martín Espada The Soldiers in the Garden The God of the Weatherbeaten Face Anne Waldman Corset 5 Female Poets Next to a Block of Ice Martín Espada The Soldiers in the Garden                       Isla Negra, Chile, September 1973 After the coup, the soldiers appeared in Neruda’s garden one night, raising lanterns to interrogate the trees,…

Poetry – Fall 2004

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 Poetry Section Table of Contents ALLEN GINSBERG Open Letter (Sept. 30, 1972) ANNE WALDMAN Bury the Skull of a Yak From “The Protest Diaries” WANDA COLEMAN The War of Wars ELIOT KATZ Three Poems Poetry Section ALLEN GINSBERG Open Letter (Sept. 30, 1972) In this open letter from the Fall of 1972, Allen Ginsberg urged…

Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads

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Anne Waldman is a poet, performance artist, and author of dozens of literary works as well as the editor of important volumes on the beats and other subjects. Waldman’s latest book is The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011) She is a cofounder, with Allen Ginsberg, of the Jack Kerouac…