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Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch: The Complete Motorcycle Betrayal Poems In 1971, Diane Wakoski published the collection, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, to tremendous acclaim. In the years that followed, Wakoski wrote additional "betrayal" poems and now all are collected here in one volume for the first time. As relevant as ever, moving, at times shocking, it is Wakoski's honesty and bravery as an artist that continues to astonish, del...

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Great expectations developed from Hollywood movie dreams ("imagining our lives, instead of living them") are inevitably shattered by disappointing and betraying real-life relationships. The bittersweet and ironic evocations of the failed loves of her life make this among the most moving, as well as revealing, of Ms. Wakoski's books.

Wakoski's autobiographical Argonautica employs the myth of quest to discover meaning in personal history.Here, following the successes of Medea the Sorceress (1991), Jason the Sailor (1993) and The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), this crowning volume in The Archaeology of Movies and Books returns to the epic journey of search and discovery. Retracing "all the footsteps I've left behind me", the narrator remembers all the "Jasons" in her life...

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Reviewing The Collected Greed Parts 1-13 (Black Sparrow, 1984) in the Los Angeles Times, critic Kenneth Funsten heralded Diane Wakoski as "a mature poet, unimpressed by obfuscation or autobiography for their own sakes, but intent upon illuminating substance".That same clarity of vision and illuminating substance pervades this "new and selected" volume, which gathers together the long awaited "Greed: Part 14" along with all Wakoski's poems "wri...

A sustained meditation on personal past and the secret nature of reality.