He also collaborated with the psychedelic community Psychodelic Prayers and with the filmmaker Melanie The Rose for the documentary The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane Di Prima. However, the scandal of his poetry was a wink of mindfulness and spiritual contact.Ĭlose friend of the poet Ezra Pound, with whom he exchanged correspondence at age 19, was a student of the Hunter Institute and the Swarthmore University, in Manhattan and during the sixties he ventured into painting, photography and collage.Īlthough di Prima is mainly associated with being a bridge between writing beat and the latest wave of artists hippies, his work flies over those horizons.īecause he also edited the literary bulletin floating bear, with the poet Amiri Baraka, co-founded the group New York Poets Theater, and founded the publishing house Poets Press. While the fifties marked a series of stereotypes that sought to define women and their behaviors, di Prima - influenced by the teachings of his grandfather, the anarchist and tailor domenico mallozi -, sowed a path of insurrectionary concerns that revealed it as a feminist authorand fearless. However, poets as Denise Levertov, Elise cowen, Ruth Weiss, Leonore Kandel, Diane Wakoski and Diane di Prima herself, put their feminine vision plausibly into the opening beatnik.
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