Diane di Prima
Sign in to saveAmerican poet (1934-2020)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1934-08-06
- Died
- 2020-10-25
- Works
- 48
Top works
- The calculus of variation
- Quita tu cuello degollado de mi cuchillo
- Loba
- Revolutionary Letters
- Quita tu cuello degollado de mi cuchillo
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1934-08-06
- Active to
- 2020-10-25
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 266
- Total plays
- 679
Diane di Prima (born August 6, 1934) is an American poet. Di Prima was born in Brooklyn. She attended Hunter College High School and Swarthmore College before dropping out to be a poet in Manhattan. Her official online biography notes that she is "a second generation American of Italian descent" and that "Her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, was an active anarchist, and associate of Carlo Tresca and Emma Goldman." Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Diane
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- San Francisco
- Occupation
- autobiographer
- Employer
- Naropa University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Movement
- Beat Generation
- Image
- Gloria Graham Diane di Prima.jpg
- Political ideology
- fat acceptance movement
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- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- date of birth
- 1934-08-06
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- date of death
- 2020-10-25
- end of work period
- 2020-00-00
- name in native language
- Diane di Prima
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Diane di Prima
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