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Diane Wakoski is a groundbreaking poet and the author of more than thirty books. Wakoski’s conversational, seemingly informal work merges the confessional and deep image to create compelling, story-like poems. The Poetry Society of America awarded Wakoski the William Carlos Williams Prize and Electric Literature called her a “legend.” Ms. Wakoski is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University and lives in East Lansing, Michigan. Elizabeth A. I. Powell is the author of The Atomizer; The Republic of Self, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize; and Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter, named one of the “Books We Loved in 2016” by The New Yorker. Her work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and literary journals such as Barrow Street, Electric Literature, Missouri Review, and Ploughshares. She is professor of writing and literature at Northern Vermont University and editor of Green Mountains Review.
“The word ‘betrayal’ crops up again and again—self‐betrayal and more often betrayal by others, so many others. Sometimes the poet answers these failures of trust with acts of self‐understanding; sometimes, more rarely, with self-pity. But most of all, it is with anger, flights of strident anger, whose intensity can be overwhelming. She digs her teeth into the slaveries of woman, she cries them aloud with such fulminating energy that the chains begin to melt of themselves. The rage is that of a prisoner whose bitterness is her bondage but also her freedom. This is what Miss Wakoski can do so well—reaching into the hive of her angers, she plucks out images of fear and delight that are transparent yet loaded with the darknesses of life. Diane Wakoski is an important and moving poet.” —The New York Times “...emotionally strong and vivid, humanly moving—the voice of a woman who is not afraid of depths.” —Anaïs Nin “She has peeled the paper wrappers off contemporary female anxieties with a rage-nourished straightforward integrity.” —Rolling Stone “Like all precisely, meticulously vivid works of art, its privacy is shareable—a gift to the reader.” —Denise Levertov
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels...
God Dies by the Nile, Searching,...
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