![]() ![]() She unhesitatingly embraced the Beat descriptor and wrote Memoirs of a Beatnik capturing the American avant garde artist’s way of life in vivid and imaginative prose. Her 36 books include Memoirs of a Beatnik, Loba, Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, Recollections of My Life As A Woman and most recently, The Poetry Deal.ĭi Prima was one of the few woman-writers in the tiny Beat movement. Diane had a long career as a poet, writer, publisher, teacher, Occultist, Pagan, Zen practioner and finally as a Tibetan Buddhist. Photo courteously provided by Richard Modiano.īorn and raised in Brooklyn NYC Diane di Prima came from a second generation Italian-American family with a background in labor militancy. ![]() Diane di Prima (1984) at Caffè Trieste, taken by Allen Ginsberg. ![]()
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