American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
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Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
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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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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
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