Di Prima, Diane (1934–)

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Di Prima, Diane (1934–)

American playwight and poet. Name variations: Diane DiPrima; Diane di Prima. Born Aug 6, 1934, in Brooklyn, NY; m. Alan Marlowe; m. Grant Fisher (div. 1975); children: 5.

Important female Beat poet, founded Poets Press (1964–69) and Eidolon Editions (1974); with Amiri Baraka, edited Floating Bear newsletter (1961–70); writings include This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards (1959), The New Handbook of Heaven (1963), Poems for Freddie (1966), Earthsong: Poems 1957–59 (1968), and Revolutionary Letters (1969).