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I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty,
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"I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc"

- Diane Wakoski

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