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Diane
Wakoski
September 14, 2001
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Diane
Wakoski has published more than forty collections of poetry.
Her body of work includes four books that constitute her series,
The Archaeology of Movies and Books, --Argonaut
Rose, The Emerald
City of Las Vegas, Jason the Sailor, and Medea
the Sorceress.
Several of her other collections include: Emerald Ice:
Selected Poems 1962-1987, which won the Poetry Society of America's
William Carlos Williams Award; and The Collected Greed,
Parts 1-13. In addition to her poetry, she has also published four
books of essays: Toward a New Poetry, Variations
on a Theme,
Creating a Personal Mythology, and Form Is an
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She has received a Fulbright fellowship, a Michigan Arts Foundation
award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan
Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the
New York State Council on the Arts. In 2003, Wakoski received
the 13th annual Michigan Author Award, which honors a Michigan
writer for contributions to literature. This award is sponsored
jointly by the Michigan Center for the Book and the Michigan
Library Association.
Diane Wakoski was born in Whittier, California and educated
at the University of California, Berkeley. She now lives in
East Lansing, Michigan, where she has been named an MSU Distinguished
Professor in the Department of English, and since 1976 has
been the writer in residence.
For more information on Diane Wakoski, please visit these
websites:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/392
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Wakoski.htm
To view Special Collections' holdings of Wakoski's work, please click here.
To hear Wakoski read from her own work, please visit the Vincent Voice Library,
here.
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March 12, 2010
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