I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

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.