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Diane Wakoski

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.

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Diane Wakoski is saying that language poets challenge traditional standards of beauty because those standards often reflect biased or limiting views about women, sex, and race. By rejecting these conventional ideas, they aim to expose and question the underlying attitudes that shape how society defines beauty.

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