Diane di Prima was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima authored nearly four dozen books. She died on October 25, 2020, at the age of 86.
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Diane di Prima was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima authored nearly four dozen books. She died on October 25, 2020, at the age of 86. Her works are held at University of Louisville, Indiana University, Southern Illinois University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2009, di Prata became San Francisco’s poet laureate.
Her first book of poetry, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, was published in 1958 by Hettie Jones and LeRoi Jones’ Totem Press. In 1961 she was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear. In 1966, she signed a vow of tax resistance to the Vietnam War. She also published her major work, the long poem Loba, in 1978, with an enlarged edition in 1998.
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