![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Di Prima always loved Ezra Pound’s formulation - “all ages are contemporaneous” - and lately her poems have seemed perfectly present tense: The “Revolutionary Letters” warn against “the tale, so often told” in times of crisis, “that now we must organize, obey the rules, so that later/we can be free.”ĭi Prima wasn’t one to wait for history to authorize the freedoms she desired. This is not unlike how the poems first circulated in the late ’60s and early ’70s with the Liberation News Service, as one-offs in free papers. Instead, after her death, individual poems from her lifelong series pop up on my social media feeds, between presidential tweets and images of police violence. It might have pleased Diane di Prima that we can’t get our hands on her “Revolutionary Letters” by capitulating to the rapacity of Amazon Prime. A rare woman among the Beatniks, she forged a path toward her own desires. ![]()
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