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Diane di PrimaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchDiane di PrimaDiane di Prima, photo byGloria Grahamduring the video taping of Add-Verse, 2004BornAugust 6, 1934(age83)
Brooklyn, New YorkOccupationPoet,Author, College High SchoolAlmamaterSwarthmore CollegeLiterary movementBeat movementNotable Mallozzi (maternal grandfather)Literature portal

Diane di Prima(born August 6, 1934) is an Americanpoet. She is also an artist, prose writer,memoirist, playwright,social justiceactivist,fat acceptanceactivist and teacher. Di Prima has authored nearly four dozen books, with her work translated into more than 20 languages.

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Biography[edit]Early life[edit]

Di Prima was born inBrooklyn, New York in 1934. She attended Hunter College High School andSwarthmore Collegebefore dropping out to be a poet inManhattan. Her official online biography notes that she is \"a second generationAmerican of Italian descent\" and that \"Her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, was an activeanarchist, and associate ofCarlo TrescaandEmma Goldman.\"[1]Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding withEzra PoundandKenneth Patchen. Her first book of poetry,This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, was published in 1958 by Hettie andLeRoi Jones\' Totem Press.

Involvement with the Beats[edit]

Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s inManhattan, where she participated in the emergingBeat movement. She spent some time inCaliforniaatStinson BeachandTopanga Canyon, returned toNew York Cityand eventually moved toSan Franciscopermanently. Di Prima was a bridge figure between the Beat movement and the laterhippies, as well as between East Coast and West Coast artists.

She edited the newspaperThe Floating BearwithAmiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)and was co-founder of theNew York Poets Theatreand founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity by the United States government due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre andThe Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for publishing two poems inThe Floating Bear. According to di Prima, police persistently harassed her due to the nature of her poetry.[2]In 1966, she spent some time atMillbrookwithTimothy Leary\'spsychedeliccommunity and printed the first two editions of \"Psychodelic Prayers\" by Leary in Spring 1966.

In 1969, she wrote a fictionalized, erotic account detailing her experience in the Beat movement titledMemoirs of a Beatnik.From 1974 to 1997, di Prima taught Poetry at theJack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, of theNaropa InstituteinBoulder, Colorado, sharing the program with fellow BeatsAllen Ginsberg(Co-founder of the program),William Burroughs,Gregory Corso, and others. In 2001, she publishedRecollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years.

Career[edit]

In the late 1960s, she moved permanently to California, where she has lived ever since. Here, di Prima became involved with theDiggersand In 1966 she signed a vow of tax resistance to protest the war in Vietnam.[3]She also published her major work, the long poemLoba, in 1978, with an enlarged edition in 1998. Her selected poems,Pieces of a Song, was published in 1990 and a memoir,Recollections of My Life as a Woman, in 2001. In 2009, di Prima was named the Poet Laureate of San Francisco. A movement is currently underway to have a street in the city named in her honor.[4]Diane read two of her poems at the iconic farewell concertThe Last Waltz, byThe Band. The first was \"Get Yer Cut Throat off My Knife\", the second, \"Revolutionary Letter #4\". Since the 1960s, she has worked as a photographer and a collage artist, and in the past 10 years she has taken up watercolor painting.

Di Prima collaborated with filmmakerMelanie La Rosato make the documentary \"The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima.\" The film has historical significance as the only film to focus exclusively on di Prima\'s work, and it features rare archival footage and recordings of di Prima reading her work from as early at 1974, acquired from places where di Prima had longstanding relationships such asNaropa University,The Poetry Projectin New York City, and thePoetry Center at San Francisco State University. The film also features contemporary readings of di Prima\'s poetry, read by her friends and by the artist herself, including a spontaneous 2007 reading of \"The Poetry Deal\" by di Prima in her living room and a moving 2009 reading of \"Song for Baby-O,\" recorded at a poetry festival in Gloucester, MA, as well as severalfilm-poemsshot in various stocks to create unique aesthetics in homage to di Prima\'s literary aesthetic. Reactions to \"The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima\" note that it allows the viewer to \"experience di Prima\'s poetry directly\" and that the \"remarkable kineticism emanating from the core of Di Prima’s lush, intimate and powerfully wrought poems” is \"organic and faithful to the buzzing sense of boundary-less joy that made the Beats so special\" — important qualities for anyone seeking to know di Prima\'s life and work.

According to di Prima\'s official website, she also teaches workshops, with her most popular being one where she teaches attendees how to combine paintings or photographs with the printed word. Di Prima has several poetic works that are in progress, including City Lights\' expanded edition ofRevolutionary Letters, which includes new poems. According to the Poetry Foundation, she has \"taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the California College of Arts and Crafts, and in the Masters-in-Poetics program at the New College of California.\"

From 1980 to 1987, she taught Hermetic and esoteric traditions in poetry, in a short-lived but significant Masters-in-Poetics program at New College of California, which she established together with poets Robert Duncan and David Meltzer. She has also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. She was one of the co-founders of San Francisco Institute of Magical and Healing Arts (SIMHA), where she taught Western spiritual traditions from 1983 to 1992.

Di Prima\'s works are held at \"the University of Louisville, Indiana University, Southern Illinois University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s libraries.\"[5]Her poetry often presents a struggle with the social and political disturbances that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. Although many of her poems did have a social or political slant, much of her writing also involved issues with personal relationships and her life. A majority of her newest material has female paradigms and religious practice, specifically Eastern philosophies.[6]

Personal life[edit]

Di Prima is the mother of five children: Jeanne di Prima,Dominique di Prima, Alex Marlowe, Tara Marlowe, and Rudi di Prima. Dominique is her daughter with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). She was married to Alan Marlowe in 1962 (divorced 1969) and in 1972 to Grant Fisher (divorced 1975.)[7]

Activism[edit]

Di Prima is known for her involvement in thefat acceptance movement. Her poetry often reflects her views on the subject, such as her 1990 collection of poems \"Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems\". In a 2001 interview with David Hadbawnik, she discusses her thoughts about society\'s views onobesity.[8]\"I think that the way America treats people who happen to be larger in scale is absolutely despicable. We need to stop hating on the larger, and start loving them.\" Di Prima has not struggled with weight problems herself, but started developing strong opinions on the subject matter after she watched an obese homeless man get beaten by a group of children.[9]\"They wouldn\'t leave him alone. I wanted to intervene, but I was too afraid at the time.\" Di Prima has since devoted time helping people struggling with weight-related body issues overcomedepressionandbullying. \"Everybody deserves respect. Not just those who have slim bodies, but everyone, regardless of pounds.\"[10]

Bibliography[edit]

This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, Totem Press, New York, 1958
Kit Fox Blues. San Francisco: Eidolon Editions. 2006.
Towers Down: Notes Toward a Poem of Revolution. San Francisco: Eidolon Editions. 2002.
The Moon and the Island. Berkeley, CA: Hesperia Press. 1997.
Seminary Poems. Floating Island Publications. 1991.
The New Handbook of Heaven. San Francisco: Auerhahn Press. 1963.
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2013.
Kerhonkson Journal. Berkeley, CA: Oyez. 1971.
Dinners and Nightmares(short stories),Corinth Books, 1961 (reissuedLast Gasp, 1998)
Seven Love Poems from the Middle Latin(translations),The Poets Press, 1965
Poems for Freddie, 1966
Old Father, Old Artificer. New York, N.Y.: Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center. 2012.
War Poems(editor), Poets Press, New York, 1968
Memoirs of a Beatnik,Olympia Press, 1969 (reissued with new afterword,Last Gasp, 1988)
The Book of Hours, 1970
\"The Bell Tower\",No Mountains Poetry Project, Evanston, IL, 1976
Selected Poems: 1956-1975, North Atlantic Books, Plainfield, 1975
Loba, Part II, Eidolon Editions, Point Reyes, 1976
The Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H.D. New York: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center. 2011.
R.D.\'s H.D. New York: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center. 2011.
Towers Down: Notes Toward a Poem of Revolution. San Francisco: Eidolon Editions. 2002.
Selected Poems: 1956-1976, North Atlantic Books, 1977
Loba, Parts 1-8, 1978
Revolutionary Letters, City Lights, 1971 (expanded edition,City Lights, 2019)
Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems,City Lights, 1990
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years,Viking Press, NY, 2001
The Poetry Deal,City Lights, 2014
Spring and Autumn Annals,City Lights, 2019