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Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 – October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Her magnum opus is widely considered to be Loba, a collection of poems first published in 1978 then extended in 1998.
Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement.
Oct 28, 2020 · Diane di Prima, the most prominent woman among the male-dominated Beat poets, who after being immersed in the bohemian swirl of Greenwich Village in the 1950s moved to the West Coast...
Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes […]
Aug 2, 2024 · Diane di Prima, American poet, one of the few women of the Beat movement to attain prominence. Her writing was of a personal nature; poems about her relationships, her children, and the experiences of everyday life figure prominently.
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Dec 23, 2020 · Di Prima entered what had mostly been a conversation among men through sheer audacity, when she sent her first book — “This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards” — to the poet and publisher ...
Oct 27, 2020 · Diane di Prima, Beat Poet And Activist, Dead At 86. Di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik was a highly sexualized fictional account of the poet's time with the Beats. One night in the 1950s...
