Happy Birthday Diane! Poet, priestess, role model, teacher and towering figure in the beat generation, one of the few women in a largely all-male club, she continues writing to this day, albeit with major health setbacks. Of her Allen writes:
Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s' Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated, and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes. A great woman poet in second half of American century, she broke barriers of race-class identity, delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity. (here Boulder Colorado, July 1987. photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg)
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