The Di Prima mss., 1956-1972, consists of the correspondence and writings of Diane Di Prima, 1934- , poet and editor. Ms. di Prima attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan and stayed three semesters at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania before leaving to join the Greenwich Village scene. A new edition of her work shows that we are still fighting the same battles as di Prima. In 2009, Di Prima was appointed Poet Laureate of San Francisco. The eye turns. This Kind of Bird Flies Backward (Poem 1958) . Buy it on Bookshop! 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. Jeri Marlowe. It was also around that time that she began to study Sanskrit and Buddhism. Another attendee of my alma matter Swarthmore. your high knowing 13-year-old Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/books/diane-di-prima-dead.html, Diane di Prima with her companion and fellow poet Amiri Baraka, known at the time as LeRoi Jones, in 1960. [6][7] According to di Prima, police persistently harassed her due to the nature of her poetry. In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page. Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn in 1934. most complete, utter love I have ever known. She spent two years at Swarthmore College before dropping out and moving to Greenwich Village to be a poet, where she became involved with the Beat Generation, and in 1958, published her first collection, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward (Totem Press). 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.. over the Hudson, wind in the Berkshire pines vivid, revealing first-person counterpart to the author's highly-praised historical account, Selma 1965 . Your purchase supports the Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco. Works atSelf-Employed - Writer, Artist, Photograher. 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. Whos Next? way. (his hands had come to rest back on my shoulders and as he Quello che volevo. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Your email address will not be published. ankles your trot toward Adventure Jack wanted me to hang out because everyone was gay and I was straight, di Prima told The Washington Post in 2017. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 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. Can you imagine Di Prima died Sunday morning at. Baraka died in 2014. leaving the quiet unquestioned living and dying, the simple one-love-and-marriage, children, material pleasures, easy securities. . . my own skin. An early influence on her political sensibilities was her immigrant grandfather, who, Ms. di Prima once told the Chicago Tribune, brought over anarchism and a sense of poetry as belonging to everyone., He would say that everyone had read Dante, she recalled, and I pictured all the housewives reading Dante.. Be great, whatever that means . She was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in the Italian enclave of Carroll Gardens. to break your heart Tutto di te. I am leaving the houses I will never own. 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. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Certain times, certain epochs, live on in the imagination as more than what they actually were. Join us for a long-awaited celebration of Les Gottesman, who passed away at the height of the covid pandemic. felt such a sense of family among the students. To write is a way of life.. Yoshida Roshi. Be great, whatever that means . Jeanne must have been Shunryu Suzuki's youngest real student and maybe 20th Anniversary of the Beat Museum on Kerouacs 101st Birthday. 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. In October 2017, di Prima was first hospitalized and moved to a care center. Co-host on @allthings_podcast. [1] Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen. In 1961 she was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear. Ms. di Prima was 22 when she decided to have a baby outside of marriage as a single mother. Last summer I visited her at the S.F. Her way was to write, to teach, to act, while holding fast to the values of tolerance and spiritual, political and cultural risk-taking by which she declared herself in great poetry and prose to be a champion of freedom and a defender of the human heart. Her aunt is good to be back in touch with you. Jack Kerouac, also a guest, shouted, "Di Prima, unless you forget about your babysitter, you're never going to be a writer.". Her father, Francis, was a lawyer, and her mother, Emma, was a teacher. Here La skincare viso di Jeanne Damas l'inspo francese che aspettavamo. Jeanne Di Prima (Daughter) SPOUSE. Scoprite gratuitamente l'albero genealogico di Jeanne , JEANNETTE-MARIE de BEAUFFORT per sapere tutto sulle sue origini e la sua storia familiare. Erano tutto ci che odiavo di te. 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 and. 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. This article will be updated accordingly. 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. I can taste the struggles. Though she had dropped out of college after one year, di Prima found work as a college instructor. (Video: Erin Patrick O'Connor, Dani Player/The Washington Post, Photo: Nat Farbman/The Washington Post). I included Diane prominently in my anthology, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, which is now in its twentieth printing and has sold over 100,000 copies. Diane di Prima went home anyway and became one of the prominent voices of the Beat Generation. Her publishing career spanned more than 60 years and 40 books. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Marav Jeanne di Prima, 1991-1992 Item Box: 1 How to Cite; University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections Diane di Prima papers (2019_003) Correspondence Incoming 23. A lot of people kept being Beat writers in terms of the language they used. He then places his hands on each of my ears, and at once For eight years, di Prima had battled Parkinsons disease, a progressive disorder of the central nervous system, and Sjogrens syndrome, an autoimmune disease characterized by dry eyes and mouth. But she described maternal responsibilities as imposing on her life the discipline that made writing possible. practice in this lifetime. enough to love In 1961 she was a founder of the New York Poets Theater, which staged works by poets and avant-garde writers. laid down by the square foot DEBUT. hide caption. Flip-Flop at AFSC: Saraswati In? Penguin Books a way of living, gone on for centuries, a way of writing, too.. Diane Rose di Prima was born on Aug.6, 1934, to an Italian American family in Brooklyn. Therefore, she wrote in "Recollections," "the child I bore" Jeanne di Prima would be mine and . I felt so important and so connected to everyone when I was Di Prima dropped out of college to join the poetry swirl in New Yorks Greenwich Village in the 1950s. Roshis eyes alight with the mischievous twinkle that was uniquely his. She was arrested in 1961 for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear, which authorities alleged were obscene, though the case was dismissed. Biography Early life. . Diane Rose di Prima was born on Aug. 6, 1934, to an Italian American family in Brooklyn. . She continued writing poetry every day until the final two weeks of her life, calling up the creative forces that powered the Beat movement. In 1964, they founded Poets Press, publishing books by Herbert Huncke, Frank OHara, and Audre Lorde, along with her own work and Marlowes. 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.. Learn how your comment data is processed. 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. Nota: Tutto di te un romanzo gay (M/M) autoconclusivo di seconde occasioni. [1] She was a second generation American of Italian descent. Though in honesty, my dear friend, that Conversation becomes less and She then married Grant Fisher, a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war, with whom she had a fifth child, Rudi di Prima. She had Parkinsons disease and Sjogrens syndrome, an autoimmune disorder, according to a statement from her family. This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 06:37. but I can show you threw me around the world, and taught me how to find plenty in every situation, Across Highway 1 from her home was a shed that di Prima converted to a writing studio. you can have what you ask for, ask for. brainwash your children, have taken over allowed to work on it. 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. She got a composition book and wrote every day from then on. In her poem Song for Baby-O, Unborn she wrote: Di Primas subsequent marriages to Alan Marlowe and Grant Fisher ended in divorce. a small piece of suburbia, green lawn USER RATING FOR DIANE DI PRIMA. Quel giorno non mi hai solo spezzato il cuore. Her experiences with the Beats inspired the book Memoirs of a Beatnik, a fictionalized account of that era. There is so much I want to ask you, so much that needs to be said. grows richer, if you want They lived together and in the mid-1990s moved to the Excelsior when di Prima became a homeowner. 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 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. Street after her. We just kept falling in love over and over again.. . 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. Aggiungi al carrello. period. . worked with DC in the dining room serving guests. are two poems for Jeanne that Diane wrote. It took her three trains to get there from Carroll Gardens by subway, she said, but she was always early for school. I can still feel today their Aggiungi alla lista dei desideri. Una tragedia si abbattuta sulla Grecia nella tarda serata di ieri, poco prima di mezzanotte. Di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik was a highly sexualized fictional account of the poet's time with the Beats. Required fields are marked *. In 1978, she published her epic Loba, which was labeled a feminist answer to Ginsbergs Howl, which launched the San Francisco Beats when published in 1955. 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. Di Prima read three very short poems from three decades: from the 1950s, Get Your Cut Throat off My Knife; from the 60s, Revolutionary Letter #4; and from the 70s, The Fire Guardian., Its all one sentence, she told the audience, but it goes around in circles.. When she finally made it to San Francisco, she went to City Lights Booksellers in North Beach. Quelli in cui speravo. She produced a literary newsletter, The Floating Bear at first with her lover, the poet LeRoi Jones, who later adopted the name Amiri Baraka, and then on her own. Di Prima was the mother of five children: Jeanne di Prima, Dominique di Prima, Alex Marlowe, Tara Marlowe, and Rudi di Prima. (Janet Fries / Getty Images) Di Prima is the eldest child and only daughter of Francis and Emma di Prima, who were college-educated, middle-class Italian-Americans. Placing one hand on each of my shoulders he pushes me down as he slowly Per prima cosa dopo aver pulito in profondit il volto con una mousse detergente delicata e adatta alla propria cute, . Omerta: Celebrating the Life and Literary Legacy of Les Gottesman. She made her mark as a Beat poet, but she later said that label was very much of one time, a long time ago.. forever. Its not a generation, she wrote in her poem Keep the Beat., Its a state of mind . She taught something called Hidden Religion, which was about spiritual and political heresies, he said by email. The blended family moved to Marshall, in West Marin, where they rented a ramshackle house on stilts on Tomales Bay for $100 a month. am blessed. She arrived in San Francisco in 1968, too late for the North Beach Beats, but she established herself as a singular force, a feminist in a poetry culture that was overwhelmingly male. A Great, Substantive Read: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the Return of the Lost Cause Censorship, nd the Need for Real Debate on Black Issues in America, AFSC-DEI Tuesday Update: Someone Didnt Get The Memo. In her later years, Diane battled numerous struggles with her health, all the while continuing to write. La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. No, Today shes Out. globe a car for everyone, garage, refrigerator, to mate in, my scorpio, bright love Diane Di Prima was an anarchist feminist Beatnik poet, who died this past weekend at 86, in San Francisco. In her memoir, she recalled a Beat party in New York, with alcohol and marijuana readily available, which di Prima left at 11:30 p.m. to tend to her daughter. Di Prima has two younger brothers, Frank (born November 6, 1937) and Richard (born September 19, 1941) who . 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. In New York, she absorbed influences from jazz music to avant-garde stage works and helped found the New York Poets Theatre. 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. Foto scioccanti, forse errore umano. I am leaving the houses I will never own. Di Prima is the mother of 5 children, Jeanne Di Prima, Dominique Di Prima, Alex Marlowe, Tara Marlowe, and Rudi Di Prima. . That (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. A new collection of jokes, humorous anecdotes, cartoons and graphics about Quakers. [4] 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 spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, where she participated in the emerging Beat movement. ''This would have to be the work of some extremist.''. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Di Prima was born Aug. 6, 1934, in Brooklyn, raised in the Italian-American neighborhood of Carroll Gardens. Poet and shopkeeper Lawrence Ferlinghetti had written the introduction to her first book, published in 1957. The latest Tweets from Jeanne DiPrima (@BamdiBam): "Taking a break from watering the garden." Join our mailing list and get the word on news, events, and all things Beat Generation and beyond! or that you wont be sad old. Campus for Jewish Livingwith fellow poet Neeli Cherkovskiand Diane was writing as we showed up. Survivors include her partner of 42 years, 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 Marlowe; a son from her marriage to Fisher, Rudi Di Prima; two brothers; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. not quite what one would choose of grey stores, like the shooting stars There are a lot of people writing tributes to my mother right could be gruff, and somewhat aloof. There is so much I want to ask you, so much that needs to be said. Suggest an alternative Share your comments about this record I didnt really follow her work or career. Anyone can read what you share. ''Nobody would purposely do this to us,'' said Jeanne Di Prima, the program coordinator for the clinic's Training and Education Project. enough to love , Your email address will not be published. She published an early prose work titled Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969). The Beat movement, epitomized by the works of such writers as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, was largely a male preserve, although it did make room for female poets including Joanne Kyger and Anne Waldman. I remember when I sat Tangario She points to a reality that may well have been Eden, though she might laugh me out of my recliner to hear that. The book was packed with sex scenes of all kinds; her publisher pushed her to include them, writing "more sex" on the manuscripts as he sent them back. yourself short, remember stato il primo progetto su larga scala di . She had earlier written the startlingly erotic Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969), which had autobiographical elements but was more novel than memoir. From Jimmy Carter in church, at Plains Georgia. Ms. di Prima wrote about her romantic and literary explorations in Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, published in 2001. Her husband, Sheppard Powell, confirmed her death, at a hospital. [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". I Revolutionary Letters Pocket Poets Series No. Shed say her first apartment was $33 a month and now she was paying $330.. 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. 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. About Danny Rosen Each morning Danny pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East Branch of Big Salt Wash which flows into the Colorado River several miles below Fruita, Colorado. Diane became a major figure on the scene; she co-founded the New York Poets Theatre, and edited the magazine The Floating Bear with LeRoi Jones. Diane Di Prima was an anarchist feminist Beatnik poet, who died this past weekend at 86, in San Francisco. Her marriage with Marlowe didnt last, and in 1973 they were divorced. Dull respect of dull neighbors. Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969) to Jeanne. Still she wrote poetry every day and had several book projects going even as she was moved to San Francisco General Hospital, where she died. Carpets. Ms. di Prima taught at several universities in California and co-founded the San Francisco Institute of Magical and Healing Arts. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. An early influence on her political sensibilities was her immigrant grandfather, who, di Prima once told the Chicago Tribune, brought over anarchism and a sense of poetry as belonging to everyone., He would say that everyone had read Dante, she recalled, and I pictured all the housewives reading Dante.. Her classic, Revolutionary Letters, was in several volumes and kept going, from No. "Jack wanted me to hang out because everyone was gay and I was straight," she said. more than slum landlords, festering sinks I dont mind that people use the Beat label, she told The Chicago Tribune in 2000. Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. 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. less important the longer I sit with the knowledge, that I have always with Allen Ginsberg and that crew, it was their actual blood that they sold for None of this matters really. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother became a reading teacher. It is so Her husband, Marlowe, was on an extended stay in India, so Di Prima rented a 14-room house on Oak Street in the Panhandle and settled in with her four children. She had Parkinsons disease and Sjogrens syndrome, an autoimmune disorder, according to a statement from her family. 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. 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.. you have not thought thru, clearly I was writing Revolutionary Letters at a fast clip and mailing them to Liberation News Service on a regular basis; from there they went to over 200 free newspapers all over the U.S. and Canada, she said in a written version of her poet laureate talk. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. and lie to others on some greeny campus, THEN YOU ARE STILL It was written in the 60s and is still being written from time to time.. I can do it sometimes but not most of the time.. Yes. Di Prima then went on to Swarthmore College before dropping out to be a poet in Manhattan. A calling. . In his amazing first book, he way overdid the self-deprecation: Goatwalking is a book for saddlebag or backpack to live . Dull respect of dull neighbors. A calling. or Indian, or Jap, or PR, where Dick There, she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism, Sanskrit, Gnosticism, and alchemy. so that the shrinks, The Floating Piers stato concepito per la prima volta da Christo e Jeanne-Claude nel 1970. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a schoolteacher. Ms. 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. allowed me to begin sitting and studying tea ceremony with Okusan at 12 years Diane brought me to my teacher, Suzuki Roshi when I was six. Diane di Prima, feminist poet of the Beat Generation, dies at 86, For Ovechkin in winter, a deadline sell-off makes sense this spring, Commanders cut Carson Wentz and Bobby McCain, clearing cap space, The NFL deserves every bit of its raging Daniel Snyder headache. My mother would speak verse every day of my life.. I know I am utterly safe Ms. di Prima was named poet laureate of San Francisco in 2009. When she first came to San Francisco in 1961, at the behest of Michael McClure, she was a single mother of two children, Jeanne di Prima (by Stefan Baumrin) and Dominique di Prima (by Amiri Baraka, then LeRoi Jones). If you had blood in your veins you could always put food on the Relationships Amid all the wonderful stuff Jim Corbett was a fascinating guy, but like all of us he had his faults. On September 24th, 2018, a fake blog was created to be used as a citation for the page, consisting of a fictional interview in which di Prima reads a poem about worms. Your weekly guide to Bay Area arts & entertainment. After reading John Keats letters, she knew she wanted to be a poet. was that hard. The Di Prima mss., 1956-1972, consists of the correspondence and writings of Diane Di Prima, 1934- , poet and editor. of lies, so you too can go forth baby Yesterday the following popped up.] Di Prima moved to San Francisco in 1968. 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. According to an archive of di Prima's papers at the University of Connecticut, this work got her arrested by the FBI for alleged obscenity (the case was eventually thrown out). I am looking directly into Japan just to teach us the proper way to sew these garments of 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. In her poem Song for Baby-O, Unborn she wrote: Ms. di Primas subsequent marriages to Alan Marlowe and Grant Fisher ended in divorce. 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. Download for Windows. But one way or the Di Prima would later tell the Chicago Tribune that it was mostly accurate, "except for the sex parts.". . 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.. Diane di Prima, feminist writer, poet, and teacher, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 6, 1934. . I didnt really follow her work or career. Dianne spent a good color TV, whose radiant energy She was truly a pioneer.. In 1966, she signed a vow of tax resistance to the Vietnam War. Ms. di Prima often spoke of the influence of her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, a tailor and anarchist who had immigrated from Italy. She traveled in the circles of Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti, a rare female voice in a male world, and went on to a long, prolific career in poetry. 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 and continued to publish prolifically in a wide range of forms, died on Sunday in San Francisco. - in Interviews. It has been a long, strange journey. She was important as the feminist voice of the Beat generation, said Ferlinghetti, co-founder of City Lights. Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to which she lent her feminist, sometimes anarchist sensibility, died Oct. 25 at a hospital in San Francisco. O you have landscapes dramatic like mine Her magnum opus is widely considered to be Loba, a collection of poems first published in 1978 then extended in 1998. 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