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Life

Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn and attended Swarthmore College before dropping out to be a poet in Manhattan. Her official online biography notes that she is "a second generation American of Italian descent" and that "Her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, was an active anarchist, and associate of Carlo Tresca and Emma Goldman."^[1] Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of nineteen was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen. Her first book of poetry, This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards was published in 1958 by Hettie and LeRoi Jones' Totem Press. Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1450 students. ... An Italian-American is an American of Italian descent either born in America or someone who has immigrated. ... Carlo Tresca (1879-1943) was a skilled labour agitator. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) aka Red Emma, was a Kaunas, Lithuania-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911 – January 8, 1972) was an American poet and painter. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934) is a U.S. writer. ...

Di Prima spent the late 1950's and early 1960s in Manhattan, where she participated in the emerging Beat movement. She spent some time in California at Stinson Beach and Topanga Canyon, returned to New York City and eventually moved to San Francisco permanently. Di Prima was a bridge figure between the Beat movement and the later Hippies as well as between east coat and west coast artists. She edited The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre and founder of the Poets Press. In 1966, she spent some time at Millbrook with Timothy Leary’s psychedelic community. In 1969, she wrote a novel describing her experience of the Beat movement titled Memoirs of a Beatnik. In 2001 she published Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years. Diane di Prima is the mother of five. The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Stinson Beach Stinson Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States. ... This article is about a town in Los Angeles County. ... Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey) is a American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. ... The New York Poets Theatre was an influential theatre company active in New York, NY in the 1960s. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Millbrook, Bedfordfshire is a village in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom Millbrook, Greater Manchester is an area of Stalybridge in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Millbrook, New York is a village in the United States Millbrook is a district of Southampton, United Kingdom This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which... For the American baseball player use Tim Leary (baseball player) Timothy Francis Leary, Ph. ...

Career

In the early 1970s, she moved to California, where she has lived ever since. Here, she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism, Sanskrit, Gnosticism and alchemy. She also published her major work, the long poem Loba in 1978, with an enlarged edition in 1998. She teaches and continues writing, having published thirty-five books of poetry. Her selected poems, Pieces of a Song was published in 1990 and a memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, in 2001. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The Diggers was a radical community-action and guerrilla-theater group from 1966-68, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. ... Buddhism is a dharmic, non-theistic religion, which is also a philosophy and a system of psychology[]. Buddhism is also known as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of the Awakened One in Sanskrit and Pali, the languages of ancient Buddhist texts. ... Sanskrit ( , ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... For other uses, see Alchemy (disambiguation). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bibliography

• This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, Totem Press, New York, 1958
• Dinners and Nightmares (short stories), Last Gasp, 1961
• Poems for Freddie, 1966
• War Poems (editor), Poets Press, New York, 1968
• Memoirs of a Beatnik, Olympia Press, 1969
• The Book of Hours, 1970
• Selected Poems: 1956-1975, North Atlantic Books, Plainfield, 1975
• Loba, Part II, Eidolon Editions, Point Reyes, 1976
• Selected Poems: 1956-1976, North Atlantic Books, 1977
• Loba, Parts 1-8, 1978
• Revolutionary Letters, City Lights, 1981
• Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, City Lights, 1990
• Recollections of My Life as a Woman The New York Years, Viking Press, NY, 2001

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Notes

1. ^ Biography of Diane di Prima.

References

• Charters, Ann (ed.). The Portable Beat Reader. Penguin Books. New York. 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk)

• di Prima, Diane, and Jones, LeRoi [Imanu Amiri Baraka], eds. The Floating Bear, a newsletter: Numbers 1-37, 1961-1969. Introduction and notes adapted from interviews with Diane di Prima. La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. ISBN 0910938547} (library binding)

External links

• Diane Di Prima.com
• On Diane Di Prima’s Rant
• Blue Neon Alley - Diane di Prima directory
• Women of the Beat Biography for Diane Di Prima
• Di Prima Papers at University of Louisville