Journals & dreams: Poems

by Anne Waldman

Genres: Poetry

211 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the 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?).

She was featured in Bob Dylan's experimental film 'Renaldo and Clara.'

Reviews

[Annie · Rating 3 out of 5]

bless Anne Waldman's heart. I love her so fervently nearly always but this so largely comes off as White-Girl-Travelogue that it was incredibly hard for me to stomach. two-thirds of the way through she turns that traveler's gaze inward but it feels disingenuous, which is a thing I really hate to say about Anne Waldman, But.

[Gisela · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found it serendipitous how she would comment on many of the same places I have traveled to and have shaped me - the lower Andes, NOLA, downtown Manhattan, Paris, etc…some poems are gorgeous and some I don’t care for, overall a solid journey through dreams wonderful and strange.