Ai (poet), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ai (poet)

American poet

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1947

Place of Birth: Albany, Texas, United States

Date of Death: 20-Mar-2010

Profession: writer, poet, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Ai (poet)

  • Ai Ogawa (born Florence Anthony; October 21, 1947 – March 20, 2010) was an American poet and educator who won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems.
  • Ai is known for her mastery of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form, as well as for taking on dark, controversial topics in her work.
  • About writing in the dramatic monologue form, she's said: "I want to take the narrative 'persona' poem as far as I can, and I've never been one to do things in halves.
  • All the way or nothing.
  • I won't abandon that desire."

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