Anne Waldman



Anne Waldman

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born
April 02, 1945

gender
female

place of birth
Millville, NJ, The United States

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genre
Poetry


about this author

Anne Waldman was part of the late Sixties poetry scene in the East Village. She ran the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, and gave exuberant, highly physical readings of her own work.

She became a Buddhist, worshipping with the Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who would also become Allen Ginsberg's guru. She and Ginsberg worked together to create a poetry school, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, at Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Anne Waldman is one of the most interesting, vibrant and unpredictable members of the post-Beat poetry community. Her confluence of Buddhist concerns and thought-paths with sources of physicality and anger is particularly impressive (did you get all that?).

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avg rating: 4.29 | 17 reviews | 422 ratings | 56 distinct works
Fast Speaking Woman: Chants an... Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.35 — 49 ratings — published 1996
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Beat Book Beat Book (Paperback)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.00 — 39 ratings — published 1999
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Nice to See You: Homage to Ted... Nice to See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan (Hardcover)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.30 — 33 ratings — published 1991
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Marriage: A Sentence Marriage: A Sentence (Penguin Poets)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.03 — 30 ratings — published 2000
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Vow to Poetry Vow to Poetry (Paperback)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.54 — 24 ratings — published 2001
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The Beat Book: Writings from t... The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation (Paperback)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.09 — 22 ratings — published 2007
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Disembodied Poetics: Annals of... Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School (American Poetry)
by Anne Waldman, Andrew Schelling (editors)
avg rating 4.47 — 21 ratings — published 2001
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In the Room of Never Grieve: N... In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems 1985-2003 (Hardcover)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.56 — 18 ratings — published 2003
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Iovis Book II Iovis Book II (Iovis)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.28 — 18 ratings — published 1996
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Iovis: All Is Full of Jove Iovis: All Is Full of Jove (Paperback)
by Anne Waldman
avg rating 4.19 — 17 ratings — published 1993
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