I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Doubleday.  
Cap of darkness: including looking for the king of Spain & Pachelbel's Canon. Black Sparrow Press.

She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism. Diane Wakoski (born August 3 1937) is an American poet. Wakowski is primarily associated with the deep image poets as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.