Ai (poet)

For the Japanese footballer, see Ai Ogawa.
Ai
Born
Florence Anthony

October 21, 1947
Albany, Texas, United States
DiedMarch 20, 2010 (aged 62)
Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
OccupationPoet
GenreContemporary American Literature
Notable worksVice (1999)
Notable awardsNational Book Award
1999

Florence 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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