Di Prima, Diane

Diane di Prima
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Name	di Prima, Diane Gender: F
born on	6 August 1934 at 16:15 (= 4:15 PM )
Place	Brooklyn (Kings County), New York, 40n38, 73w56
Timezone	EDT h4w (is daylight saving time)
Data source	Accuracy in question Rodden Rating C Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	13°39' 05°28 Asc. 14°52'

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Diane di Prima (photo by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2004)
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Biography

American poet and artist, who participated in the emerging Beat movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, New York. She was also a prose writer, memoirist, playwright, social justice activist, fat acceptance activist, and teacher. Di Prima authored nearly four dozen books, with her work translated into more than 20 languages.

Di Prima was a bridge figure between the Beat movement and the later hippies, as well as between East Coast and West Coast artists. She edited The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity by the United States government due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and the newspaper The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was actually arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear. According to di Prima, police persistently harassed her due to the nature of her poetry.

In 1966, she spent some time at Millbrook with Timothy Leary's psychedelic community and printed the first two editions of Psychodelic Prayers by Leary in Spring 1966. In 1969, she wrote a fictionalized, erotic account detailing her experience in the Beat movement titled Memoirs of a Beatnik. From 1974 to 1997, di Prima taught Poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, sharing the program with fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg (Co-founder of the program), William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and others. In 2001, she published Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years.

Di Prima was the mother of five children: Jeanne di Prima, Dominique di Prima, Alex Marlowe, Tara Marlowe, and Rudi di Prima. She was married to Alan Marlowe in 1962 (divorced 1969) and in 1972 to Grant Fisher (divorced 1975). Diane di Prima died on 25 October 2020 at the age of 86.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• associate relationship with Leary, Timothy (born 22 October 1920)

• associate relationship with Pound, Ezra (born 30 October 1885). Notes: Penpals

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 25 October 2020 (Age 86)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes her for her rising sign in "Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years : a Memoir" by Diane Di Prima (Viking, 2001), p. 419: "Perhaps it's my nature, or having Sagittarius rising, but I am always more curious about what's to come than sad about losing what I've had."

Note: A speculative time of 4:15pm gives mid Sagittarius rising.

Categories

• Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces (Two)

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)

• Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Five)

• Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Civil/ Political

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 86)

• Vocation : Art : Fine art artist

• Vocation : Art : Fine art artist

• Vocation : Education : Teacher

• Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer (Memoirist)

• Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script

• Vocation : Writers : Poet

• Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Edited "The Floating Bear")