Early life and education [ edit] This article will be updated accordingly. 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. I hear what he says as truth, and it seems I have always known it. (Video: Erin Patrick O'Connor, Dani Player/The Washington Post, Photo: Nat Farbman/The Washington Post). Ammiel Alcalay, one of her literary executors, said the free-spirit elements of Ms. di Primas life belied the serious scholarship underpinning her poetry. . I have already seen it all for the prison it is.. Aggiungi alla lista dei desideri. Lenore was wonderful as the woman on the scene, the matriarch, and she made it so clear that I was welcome; otherwise, it could have been very different. They found a 14-room house on Oak Street for $300 a month, which they rented, and moved into it A whole slew of grown-ups, some of them crazy, some with children. The Diggers used Dianes VW van for food pickup and delivery to as many as 25 different communes. . She never found a keyboard useful for poetry, said Powell. Di Prima then went on to Swarthmore College before dropping out to be a poet in Manhattan. . She and a group of eight girls, including future feminist poet Audre Lorde, would meet each morning before class to read aloud the poetry theyd written the day before. In 1994, I featured Diane and her daughter, Dominique, in Wordland, a monthly massive literary show held in the auditorium of San Franciscos Womens Building. Of course, I knew of Diane di Prima before I ever came to San Francisco. Its not a generation, she wrote in her poem Keep the Beat. Its a state of mind . Di Prima announced her Bay Area arrival with the publication of Memoirs of a Beatnik. This caused a stir in the male-dominated Beat poetry community because in the first few pages, di Prima described her sexual adventures in terms far more graphic than anything published by any of the men. Shed published a poetry collection, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, and a short story collection, Dinners and Nightmares, which expanded the form by including lists and rants, and colorful descriptions of lowlife Bohemians. brainwash your children, have taken over To write is a way of life.. youll never go hungry Traduo Context Corretor Sinnimos Conjugao. There is so much I want to ask you, so much that needs to be said. Carpets. Quelli in cui speravo. Ecco che si stava finalmente realizzando la parte iniziale del grande sogno di Jeanne. These are some poems from Revolutionary Letters, she said before a reading in 2014. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Per prima cosa dopo aver pulito in profondit il volto con una mousse detergente delicata e adatta alla propria cute, . Its just that its very much of one time, a long time ago. This article was published more than2 years ago. . Relationships I know I There are a lot of people writing tributes to my mother right She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. You never stop, she said. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. A new edition of her work shows that we are still fighting the same battles as di Prima. If you had blood in your veins you could always put food on the In addition to her commitment to literature, di Prima was a co-founder of the San Francisco Institute of Magical and Healing Arts, where she taught Western spiritual traditions. Ms. di Prima attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s but, to her parents horror, dropped out and moved to Greenwich Village. Editors note: Weve reached out to several of Dianes friends and colleagues for their thoughts and reflections upon her passing, and we expect to hear more in the coming days. Can't find a book here? ''Nobody would purposely do this to us,'' said Jeanne Di Prima, the program coordinator for the clinic's Training and Education Project. tiny, loving hands that were constantly patting me, smoothing down my But her Beat period was only the beginning; over her long career Ms. di Prima published some 50 poetry books and chapbooks. Diane di Prima's political poetry took on America's oppressive power structures while her activism made her a target for the FBI. can feed you pills to keep you weak, or sterile, I can still feel today their am blessed. Ms. di Prima was named poet laureate of San Francisco in 2009. Her experiences with the Beats inspired the book Memoirs of a Beatnik, a fictionalized account of that era. color TV, whose radiant energy SIX! She had earlier written the startlingly erotic Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969), which had autobiographical elements but was more novel than memoir. . grows richer, if you want Memorie della vita di Jeanne D'Arc quantity. Foto scioccanti, forse errore umano. . I am looking directly into None of this matters really. DC: I think three days was the most people did unless it was for practice He then places his hands on each of my ears, and at once But I was an early long-distance fan of the Beats, and one of her poems, part of a series of Revolutionary Letters, caught my attention. sitting for three days when you were 13? Some remember her Our household was extremely verbal, Frank DiPrima said in a phone interview. other Diane always had art being made and a lot of soup on the stove, lentil or Di Prima was born Aug. 6, 1934, in Brooklyn, raised in the Italian-American neighborhood of Carroll Gardens. Download for Windows. As I drooled over Hunckes Journal she stressed the importance of DIYto not allow the perception of amateurish appearance to preclude one from releasing their work into the world.. hide caption. She got a composition book and wrote every day from then on. She has always written by hand., She was named San Francisco poet laureate in 2009, and in 2011 was the subject of a 30-minute documentary film titled The Poetry Deal.. [1] Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen. Baraka died in 2014. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, where she participated in the emerging Beat movement. [7] At The Band's famous Last Waltz concert in 1976, she read aloud from Revolutionary Letters and the one-line poem "Get Yer Cut Throat Off My Knife". Beat belongs to the great American counterculture.. The line is a living thing.. I also performed them, sometimes with guitar accompaniment by Peter Coyote, on the steps of City Hall, while my comrades handed out the Digger Papers and tried to persuade startled office workers on their way to lunch that they should drop out and join the revolution., She had arrived in San Francisco, she wrote, with 14 grown-ups (so-called) and all their accompanying kids & pets, horns & typewriters, and at least one rifle., Mr. Powell, in a phone interview, said such a caravan was not unusual. heart of your warmth, my girl, as you step out In her memoir, she recalled a Beat party in New York, with alcohol and marijuana readily available, which Ms. di Prima left at 11:30p.m. to tend to her daughter. Certain times, certain epochs, live on in the imagination as more than what they actually were. Diane di Prima, feminist writer, poet, and teacher, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 6, 1934. One of Ms. di Primas best-loved poems, written in 1957 for her first child, Jeanne, is called Song for Baby-o, Unborn: Sweetheart,when you break thruyoull finda poet herenot quite what one would choose.I wont promiseyoull never go hungryor that you wont be sadon this guttedbreakingglobebut I can show youbabyenough to loveto break your heartforever. Street after her. In New York, she absorbed influences from jazz music to avant-garde stage works and helped found the New York Poets Theatre. This story was originally published at washingtonpost.com. Her first book of poetry, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, was published in 1958 by Hettie Jones and LeRoi Jones' Totem Press. Yes. enough to love But she grew disillusioned with New York and in 1968 made her way to San Francisco to work with the Diggers, a collective known for street theater and for passing out free food and leaflets. Prima di fare un'offerta Accedi o Crea un account gratuito. Ms. di Prima was initially known as one of the Beats; she published her first poetry volume, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, in 1958, two years after Allen Ginsbergs celebrated Howl and Other Poems appeared. Diane Di Prima was an anarchist feminist Beatnik poet, who died this past weekend at 86, in San Francisco. for everyone, you are still the enemy, In an interview three years ago, di Prima described her impact of her verse on readers as giving them the courage to change their lives. Alan Marlowe. It was, she explained to the audience, about the pact she had made with the poetry muse the you in the poem was poetry itself. Quel giorno non mi hai solo spezzato il cuore. Di Prima is the eldest child and only daughter of Francis and Emma di Prima, who were college-educated, middle-class Italian-Americans. "Jack wanted me to hang out because everyone was gay and I was straight," she said. Jeanne Morvan (born Prima) was born in 1615, to Vincent Prima and Marie Genevive Prima (born Quelen). Among Ms. di Primas most ambitious works was a mythologically and spiritually themed series of poems, under the title Loba, that she added to and revised for decades; in 1998 Penguin published a collected version more than 300 pages long. Di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934.She attended Hunter College High School and 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 . baby [15][16] She was battling several health issues such as Parkinson's disease and Sjgren syndrome. Biography Early life. This Kind of Bird Flies Backward (Poem 1958) . I have already seen it all for the prison it is.. New York: Totem . yourself short, remember She is also survived by five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; and her brothers, Richard DiPrima of Madison, Wis., and Frank DiPrima of Morristown, N.J. My mom was fearless, Dominique DiPrima, a talk radio host and activist, told The Chronicle. Ms. di Prima lived a life that was light years away from the suburban-housewife world that has become the prevailing image of the 1950s taking an assortment of lovers, doing some nude modeling to make money, courting arrest with the publications she and her circle printed. . . . She was 86. From discovering Keats as a teenager to visiting Ezra Pound during his incarceration at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Diane was always connected to both her elders and her most vital contemporaries. Mr. Alcalay has published her work as part of a series of books called Lost & Found. Diane brought me to my teacher, Suzuki Roshi when I was six. . like your eyes turned sideways at us A French publisher, Maurice Girodias, had contracted her to write an erotic take on the Beat era, and, as the Tribune article noted, Girodias kept sending back the manuscript, scrawled with notations for more sex, and di Prima obliged with fictionalized passages of erotic acrobatics. Yet the book attained cult status as a rare feminist window onto a period when men got most of the attention and sexism was much in evidence. Last summer I visited her at the S.F. Dull respect of dull neighbors. That I dont think about it as a legacy, she said. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother became a reading teacher. and will always be. She points to a reality that may well have been Eden, though she might laugh me out of my recliner to hear that. . Her collection Revolutionary Letters (she wrote a series of poems under that title) included a poem about him, April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa, which begins this way: Today is yourbirthday and I have triedwriting these things before,but nowin the gathering madness, I want tothank youfor telling me what to expectfor pullingno punches, back there in that scrubbed Bronx parlor, Yet, she wrote, her maternal grandmother, Antoinette, and the other women in the household in which she grew up taught her the practicalities of survival. She Can you imagine Nota: Tutto di te un romanzo gay (M/M) autoconclusivo di seconde occasioni. like dustmotes at dawn in the back American poet Diane di Prima (1934-2020) gives a reading onstage in Berkeley, California, March 1976. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Marav I can still feel its sting half a century later. Loba, an epic poem published in installments beginning in 1973, centers on a wolf goddess and is often described as the female answer to Ginsbergs Howl (1955). am overwhelmed as I think of all she did for me to help me grow and to help me Di Prima moved in 1968 to San Francisco, where she joined the Diggers, an anarchist group in the Haight-Ashbury district that provided free food, clothes and theater to the poor, and continued her writing. She was beautiful, and literary brilliance apart, I was always a little in love with her. In Dinners and Nightmares and particularly in Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969), the explicitness of her writing went well beyond that of her male Beat contemporaries. it flower for us, if you want, if you still want a piece Buy it on Bookshop! Dull respect of dull neighbors. Her partner of 42 years, Sheppard Powell, was at her bedside. . The Floating Piers stato concepito per la prima volta da Christo e Jeanne-Claude nel 1970. The Di Prima mss., 1956-1972, consists of the correspondence and writings of Diane Di Prima, 1934- , poet and editor. The eye turns. Examines the strategy & tactics, successes & failures, history & future of faith-based work to end war, and to dismantle militarism and the repression it has spawned. Do you remember that? allowed to work on it. By then, she already had two kids, Jeanne DiPrima by Stefan Baumrin, and Dominique DiPrima by writer Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones). While attending Hunter College High School, she and a circle of other girls, which included a young Audre Lorde, would meet before school to share their poetry. pimps for this decadence, can make Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. Baraka died in 2014. Because of the life she lived and the iconic image of the Beat woman, the extraordinary range of sources and knowledge that went into di Primas writing and thought has hardly been explored, Mr. Alcalay, a professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center, said by email. Be great, whatever that means . She was always determined to come home and though she never made it, her voice remained on her answering machine, wavering but clear in a haiku she had written. Be great, whatever that means . Una tragedia si abbattuta sulla Grecia nella tarda serata di ieri, poco prima di mezzanotte. Unfettered by the conventions of academia or society, she speaks of life outside the mainstream of middle-class America, charting the shifting streams of Americas fringe culture.. . Ms. di Prima attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s but, to her parents horror, dropped out and moved to Greenwich Village. She rented a flat at Laguna and Page streets, this time for $330 a month. Erano tutto ci che odiavo di te. In October 2017, di Prima was first hospitalized and moved to a care center. Your weekly guide to Bay Area arts & entertainment. When di Prima was asked if she considered herself a Beat, in a 2014 interview with The Chronicle, she answered, Yes, if you define Beat as a state of mind not bound by any particular time or by a single generation. She experimented sexually and with drugs and lived for a period at a commune in Millbrook, N.Y., led by Timothy Leary, who promoted use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD. . . Sweetheart This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 06:37. www.diprimaphotography.com/blog/fall-mini-sessions-2022 Posts Reels Tagged She was 86. laid down by the square foot Tutto di te. Di Prima had also made a documentary "The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima" in association with filmmaker Melanie La Rosa. Co-host on @allthings_podcast. stands. Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn in 1934. Rather, we focus on discussions related to local stories by our own staff. know that the time I spent at Tassajara was incredibly important to me. Her classic, Revolutionary Letters, was in several volumes and kept going, from No. Deeply aware of the material and political corruption all around, her Diane had little patience for compromised decency. . Di Prima has two younger brothers, Frank (born November 6, 1937) and Richard (born September 19, 1941) who followed more traditional career paths, becoming an attorney and the owner of an educational . The holiest life that was offered in our world. By her actions, she declared herself a conscientious objector to the bourgeois life of her childhood, quitting college because it distracted her from her artistic pursuits and making a name for herself, first in New York and later in San Francisco, amid the tumult of the counterculture. There she wrote and published several volumes of verse, and helped to found the American Theatre for Poets. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. She continued writing poetry every day until the final two weeks of her life, calling up the creative forces that powered the Beat movement. By the time di Prima came to the West Coast, she had already established herself as co-founder of both the Poets Press and the New York Poets Theatre and was co-editor of the literary magazine the Floating Bear. felt such a sense of family among the students. . O you have landscapes dramatic like mine They are, if you look close, times when the boundary between mythology and everyday life is blurred, she wrote in her 2001 memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman. This meeting of world and myth is where we all thought we were going., Keep the Beat: The greatest minds of a generation. For years, she taught at the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo. Shed load the kids in a truck with a camper and drive to the Rockies, returning in time for the public school year to start in Point Reyes Station. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)[5] and was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre and founder of the Poets Press. None of this matters really. She was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in the Italian enclave of Carroll Gardens. . She was 86. She was truly a pioneer.. Closed TuesWed. In New York, she absorbed influences from jazz music to avant-garde stage works and helped found the New York Poets Theatre. It might have pleased Diane di Prima that we can't get our hands on her "Revolutionary Letters" by capitulating to the rapacity of Amazon Prime. now, and my brother is spearheading a movement to rename the small park on Page seeking always to help me find the quiet, inner expression of the joy in Examines the neglected role of Progressive Quakers in 19th and 20th century activism -- abolition, women's rights & more. Jeanne was treated as an adult, followed the same schedule as everyone. but I can show you She made you feel totally alive. Like many of her poems, Loba was an open-ended poem, and even its publication did not put an end to it. "He was probably hoping to get laid later.". In 1966, she signed a vow of tax resistance to the Vietnam War. It is so Ms. di Primas startlingly erotic 1969 memoir offered a rare feminist window onto a period when men got most of the attention and sexism was much in evidence. Diane di Prima, a prolific poet who pursued the life of a Beat and rose to the position of San Francisco poet laureate, died Sunday, Oct. 25. The Washington Post. In the early 1960s, she married Alan Marlowe, a model and actor. For on that skin, the tender skin of a 7-year-old, when he But she described maternal responsibilities as imposing on her life the discipline that made writing possible. most complete, utter love I have ever known. Sheppard Powell; her eldest daughter, Jeanne Di Prima, from a relationship with Stefan Baumrin; her daughter Dominique DiPrima, from her relationship with Baraka; two children from her marriage to Marlowe, Alexander Marlowe and Tara . youll find Di Prima attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s but, to her parents horror, dropped out and moved to Greenwich Village. . . A calling. Haight with Yoshida too. Her marriage with Marlowe didnt last, and in 1973 they were divorced. Her deepest service, she added, was to poetry and to humans. "And it's all right, even if you're old and gray, 'Cuz it's all right, you still got something to say . regardless. Yet, Diane was pure. DI PRIMA, she recalled Kerouac shouting, UNLESS YOU FORGET ABOUT YOUR BABYSITTER, YOURE NEVER GOING TO BE A WRITER., (Asked years later about the incident, Ms. di Prima said that she did not attribute Kerouacs comment to sexism. She has also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. me that at times threatened to overwhelm me. She was 86. Works atSelf-Employed - Writer, Artist, Photograher. Di Prima was 22 when she decided to have a baby outside of marriage as a single mother. [13] In her memoir, di Prima describes seeing her grandfather speak at a rally in the park, writing: "I am proud of him, and afraid, but mostly amazed. Di Prima is the mother of 5 children, Jeanne Di Prima, Dominique Di Prima, Alex Marlowe, Tara Marlowe, and Rudi Di Prima. In November 2017, a user of Wikipedia added the Activism section to the page, consisting of fictional stories such as di Prima having "watched an obese homeless man get beaten by a group of children" and falsely insisting that di Prima was an outspoken fat acceptance movement advocate and Worms Armageddon fan. (G. E. on the Navaho Loba turned out to be eight parts and was not published in its completed form until 1998, 20 years after its debut. During this period she completed her book-length epic Loba, which she revised multiple times over twenty years following its initial publication. For Ms. di Prima, the author of more than 40 works of poetry, prose and theater, writing was like being a hermit or a samurai. La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. [NOTE: On Garrison Keillors Substack, theres a feature called the Back Room, on which he posts odds and ends from his decades of work. I One verse goes like this: Id like my daily bread howeveryou arrange it, and Id also liketo be bread, or sustenance forsome others even after Ive left.A song they can walk a trail with. ''This would have to be the work of some extremist.''. By 1970, di Prima and Marlowe were estranged and she was involved with Grant Fisher, a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. I am leaving the houses I will never own. She taught something called Hidden Religion, which was about spiritual and political heresies, he said by email. From the 1960s on she worked as a photographer and a collage artist, and in the last decade or so of her life she took up watercolor painting. The Seattle Times does not append comment threads to stories from wire services such as the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post or Bloomberg News. Jeanne's mother is Dianne He was, she wrote in her 2001 memoir, regarded somewhat as a family treasure: a powerful and erratic kind of lightning generator, a kind of Tesla experiment, we for some reason kept in the house.. Her impact is far and wide with seeds and beacons of light as guides towards sukha. Tate Swindell. She told The Chronicle her grandfather spoke Italian to her and taught her to be an anarchist, a political leaning she supported ever after. [2] Di Prima changed her last name from DiPrima to di Prima because she believed it better reflected her Italian ancestry. Ms. di Prima taught at several universities in California and co-founded the San Francisco Institute of Magical and Healing Arts. A tribute to Diane di Prima, marking one year since her passing in October 2020, with Hanif Abdurraqib, Garrett Caples, Jeanne di Prima, Sheppard Powell, Cedar Sigo, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Wendy Trevino, and Jenny Jo Wennlund. Before an audience of 400, Diane and Dominique performed a mother-daughter trade-off of poetry and rap lyrics that brought the audience to its feet, dancing. amount of time at Tassajara with her children. Di Prima dropped out of college to join the poetry swirl in New Yorks Greenwich Village in the 1950s. into your Vajra pathway, glinting The family statement announcing her death described her as a devout Buddhist. [10] In the 1970s, she published the collection Revolutionary Letters, influenced by her time with the Diggers. She taught us to question authority and believe in the power of our creativity. Join us for a long-awaited celebration of Les Gottesman, who passed away at the height of the covid pandemic. Diane di Prima went home anyway and became one of the prominent voices of the Beat Generation. your dreams, degrees from universities which are nothing [6][7] According to di Prima, police persistently harassed her due to the nature of her poetry. Placing one hand on each of my shoulders he pushes me down as he slowly shoot germs into your kids, while Merck & Co. Throughout the corpus of Di Primas work is often the struggle wherein the social and the political are deeply personal; Dianes life and work were inseparable from one another. Print Issues-A Friendly Letter March, 1981 May, 1985 Archive, Print Issues-A Friendly Letter June, 1985 December, 1989 Archive, Print-Issues-A Friendly Letter January, 1990 January, 1993 Archive. She had been living at an elder care home since 2017 because of various health problems, having moved there from the couples home in the citys Excelsior district. I remember her complaining about the rent, recalled her son Rudy DiPrima. It was usual poet stuff talking, reading, smoking, drinking until 11:30 p.m. came around and di Prima said she was going home to relieve her babysitter. In 2017, the Washington Post asked her if Kerouac's comments were indicative of the sexism in the Beat scene. Hear some of our stories from the road, along with music, poetry, games, door prizes and other giveaways! are two poems for Jeanne that Diane wrote. Not only was Diane a pioneering woman of the Beat Generation, but she bridged and transcended subsequent generations in her inexorable journey to live an authentic life. In New York, she absorbed influences from jazz music to avant-garde stage works and helped found the New York Poets Theatre. [7], She published her major work, the long poem Loba, in 1978, with an enlarged edition in 1998. Strictly's Graziano di Prima, 28, reveals why he and new wife Giada Lini, 32, will wait to have kids . Ms. di Prima had five children including one with LeRoi Jones, the influential African American poet later known as Amiri Baraka while publishing her writings, co-founding with Jones a mimeographed literary newsletter, the Floating Bear, and pursuing the self-discovery that the freedoms of the counterculture promised. It cost 95 cents. No matter what I will be [a] poet, she recalled thinking, describing in her memoir the sense of purpose of which she was possessed. enough to love Revolutionary Letters Pocket Poets Series No. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother became a reading teacher. your high knowing 13-year-old For many years, she taught in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder. A public tribute is being planned. Diane brought me to my teacher, Suzuki Roshi when I was six. The latest Tweets from Jeanne DiPrima (@BamdiBam): "Taking a break from watering the garden." baby We were like teenagers, Powell recalled. But one way or the It is what I believe is underneath all the acquisition: things, ideas, passions that create a lie were clinging to so urgently that even a plague and impropriety of this presidents creation of alternative facts /evil seem better than the threat of losing it all that would give us time, maybe, to find out if we really might be real. . Vi prego di consultare l'avvertenza prima di leggerlo o acquistarlo. Alan Marlowe (1962-1969) SPOUSE. I know I am utterly safe California when I was eleven so she could study with Roshi. Di Prima lived for the rest of her life in San Francisco, becoming the citys poet laureate in 2009 and, by the time of her death, one of the few surviving members of the Beat generation. Diane di Prima, a prolific poet who pursued the life of a Beat and rose to the position of San Francisco poet laureate, died Sunday, Oct. 25. Shed say her first apartment was $33 a month and now she was paying $330.. Kerouac had died in 1969, Burroughs and Ginsberg in 1997. On February 17th, the AFSC Leadership Team (LT) asserted that Raquel Saraswatis job as DEI Director was safe, that they firmly believe in her Loyalty to [NOTE: Henry Louis Gates could well be the best professor I never had. Yesterday the following popped up.] She was a great sister and anytime I had academic problems in high school, she was there for me.. [20], Last edited on 19 December 2022, at 06:37, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86", "Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86", "Diane di Prima, Beat Poet And Activist, Dead At 86", "Diane Di Prima Papers, Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. 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