Anne Waldman is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights Books, 1978) and, most recently, Skin Meat Bones (Coffee House Press, 1985) and Blue Mosque (United Artists, 1987). Of her work it has been said, she moves through language with a simplicity and grace and respect that give her poems power, not only in the way they are written, but in what they have to say. She is perhaps best known for hundreds of performances in which her poems have been accompanied by musicians or dancers. Critics have raved: Make no mistake. A Waldman appearance is a performance with a capital \u27P\u27. She has read or performed her poetry in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Venice, Bhopal, London, Glasgow, Cambridge,...