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Saikawa ai biography poet
Ai (poet)
American poet (1947–2010)
For the Japanese footballer, see Ai Ogawa.
Ai Ogawa (born Florence Anthony; October 21, 1947 – March 20, 2010)[1][2][3][4] was an American poet and educator who won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems.[5] 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.[6] 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."[7]
Early life
Ai, who described herself as 1/2 Japanese, 1/8 Choctaw-Chickasaw, 1/4 Black, 1/16 Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche, was born in Albany, Texas,[1][2][3][4][8][9] in 1947, and grew up in Tucson,