 Diane Di Prima photo: Sheppard Powell |
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Education WRITERS READ: DIANE DI PRIMA RECOLLECTIONS OF MY LIFE AS A WOMAN SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2001, 2 PM $6 ($3 WALKER MEMBERS AND STUDENTS) AUDITORIUM  |
"A GREAT WOMAN POET IN THE SECOND HALF OF AMERICAN CENTURY, SHE BROKE BARRIERS OF RACE-CLASS IDENTITY, DELIVERED A MAJOR BODY OF VERSE BRILLIANT IN ITS PARTICULARITY."
-- ALLEN GINSBERG
Diane di Prima, one of the most prominent poets of the Beat generation, is the author of such books as Memoirs of a Beatnik and Recollections of My Life as a Woman (Viking, 2001), which chronicles her years as a young writer, single mother, and participant in the New York scene with Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and others. Critic Gretchen Munroe says di Prima "charts the shifting streams of America's fringe culture." She has published 32 books, contributed to more than 300 publications worldwide, and has had her work translated into more than 13 languages. Di Prima is one of the cofounders of the San Francisco Institute of Magickal and Healing Arts (SIMHA), where she taught Western spiritual traditions from 1983-1992.