She would later document her experiences with Beat culture in 1950s New York in her well-known-and controversial- Memoirs of a Beatnik (Penguin, 1969). In 1951, she went to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, but dropped out two years later to join the bohemian community in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, where she became a member of the Beat movement and developed friendships with John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Denise Levertov, and Frank O’Hara, among others. Onehandclapping, CC BY-SA 3.Diane di Prima was born August 6, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, the only daughter and eldest child of Francis and Emma di Prima.ĭi Prima attended Hunter College High School in New York City, where she began writing. She was the author of the semi-autobiographical Memoirs of a Beatnik and the memoir Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years. Her poetry collections include This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards and Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems. It’s like you have to kick your kids out the door it’s the same thing.ĭiane di Prima was an American poet associated with the Beat movement. You have an obligation to your work to get it out.If there’s no electric grid, how can there be a cyber-grid? I think that’s a big drawback. When they don’t make a hardcopy of something, they really think that nobody’s ever going to pull the plug and that there could ever be a day when the country is in chaos - a million little nations no electric grid. I think that people are relying a little too much right now on the idea that the cyber-network is going to be here forever.I was about to meet my brothers and sisters.
Not many would hear them, but they would, finally, hear each other.
All the people who, like me, had hidden and skulked… all these would now step forward and say their piece. For I sensed that Allen was only, could only be, the vanguard of a much larger thing. It followed that if there was one Allen there must be more, other people besides my few buddies writing what they spoke, what they heard, living, however obscurely and shamefully, what they knew, hiding out here and there as we were- and now, suddenly, about to speak out. The poem put a certain heaviness in me, too. I had no idea yet what that meant, how far it would take us. I knew that this Allen Ginsberg, whoever he was, had broken ground for all of us – all few hundreds of us – simply by getting this published. The phrase ‘breaking ground’ kept coming into my head.The only war is the war against the imagination.
I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it I think these are two of the most essential human functions.
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to.Diane di Prima was born 6 August 1934 and died 25 October 2020.
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