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    A Study Guide for Diane Wakoski's "Inside Out"
    A Study Guide for Diane Wakoski's "Inside Out"
    A Study Guide for Diane Wakoski's "Inside Out"
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    A Study Guide for Diane Wakoski's "Inside Out"

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    A Study Guide for Diane Wakoski's "Inside Out," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535826105
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      A Study Guide for Diane Wakoski's "Inside Out" - Gale

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      Inside Out

      Diane Wakoski

      1966

      Introduction

      Diane Wakoski's Inside Out was first published in 1966 in her volume of original poetry Discrepancies and Apparitions. This volume was only Wakoski's second to be published out of well over a dozen, and the poetry included therein is considered typical of her early work. Inside Out is an excellent representation of her early poetry in that it consists largely of associative images and presents a fantastical and improbable situation: one human being walking around inside another. Wakoski uses the imagery of the physical connectedness between the poem's speaker and her addressee as metaphors for their other types of connections, such as mental and emotional. The stylistic qualities of Wakoski's early poems such as Inside Out earned her a reputation as part of the deep image movement, led by a group of poets who created stylized works of carefully arranged images. An aspect of the deep image movement that is highly visible in Inside Out is the influence of surrealism. Much of the action of Inside Out is bizarre and fantastical, which gives it a dreamlike quality that Wakoski favored. Inside Out can also be found in Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962–1987, published in 1988.

      Author Biography

      Wakoski was born in Whittier, California, on August 3, 1937, to John Joseph and Marie Wakoski. In interviews she has stated that she had an unhappy childhood and felt the inclination to write from a very young age, composing her first poems when she was only seven years old. While attending the University of California at Berkeley she participated in Thom Gunn's poetry workshops. During her time at Berkeley she was also an accomplished piano student. While she was at college, Wakoski gave birth to two children, one in 1956 and one in 1960, both

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