Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.
Anne WaldmanAs a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.
Anne WaldmanWhen I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lyndon Johnson to work with alienated youth on the lower East side. This was extraordinary, to be able to help then to create a culture that would capture the energy that I felt at Berkley.
Anne WaldmanIt was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.
Anne Waldman