Diane di Prima
Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara, and Audre Lorde. After joining Timothy Leary’s intentional community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968.
CPC Readings
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The Art Institute of Chicago
Poetry by Diane di Prima
Fuck You, John Calvin Continue reading
let the forgery come forward
let the fragment
override the text the Word
is a thing w/ feathers
matted
by oil spill
in the aftermath
of the storm
O suck
the air w/ punctured lungs
& call it singing
I tell you grace is what the cannibal
names his dinner
The Window Continue reading
you are my bread
and the hairline
noise
of my bones
you are almost
the sea
you are not stone
or molten sound
I think
you have no hands
An Exercise in Love Continue reading
My friend wears my scarf at his waist
I give him moonstones
He gives me shell & seaweeds
He comes from a distant city & I meet him
We will plant eggplants & celery together
He weaves me cloth
Many have brought the gifts
I use for his pleasure
silk, & green hills
& heron the color of dawn