Rare 1970 Beat Poet Broadside 

DIANE WAKOSKI 'EXORCISM' 

Exorcism

By Diane Wakoski 

[First Edition] (Boston): My Dukes/ Diane Wakoski, 1970. Broadside poem; single sheet, printed on recto only, measuring about 17 x 11 inches. Rare title by this important Beat Poet. My Dukes #2, printed by Joseph Wilmot for Bill Little. First separate edition, unstated first edition printing of 1000 copies. 

Very good condition, with minor storage creasing, light toning to extremities; no owner marking, not ex-library.

Biography:

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

Her early writings were considered part of the deep image movement that also included the works of Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, and Clayton Eshleman, among others. She also cites William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski as influences. Her poetry career began in New York City, where she moved with La Monte Young in 1960. She remained a resident of New York City until 1973. Her later work is more personal and conversational in the Williams mode. Wakoski is married to the photographer Robert Turney, and is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Wakoski's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series and her work has been published in more than twenty collections and many slim volumes of poetry.