Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions

Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions reveals how central di Prima was in the...
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Author: David Stephen Calonne
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Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions by Calonne, David Stephen

Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions

BD$107.48

Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions

BD$107.48
Author: David Stephen Calonne
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions reveals how central di Prima was in the discovery, articulation and dissemination of the major themes of the Beat and hippie countercultures from the fifties to the present.

Di Prima (1934--) was at the center of literary, artistic, and musical culture in New York City. She also was at the energetic fulcrum of the Beat movement and, with Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), edited The Floating Bear (1961-69), a central publication of the period to which William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, and Frank O'Hara contributed. Di Prima was also a pioneer in her challenges to conventional assumptions regarding love, sexuality, marriage, and the role of women.

David Stephen Calonne charts the life work of di Prima through close readings of her poetry, prose, and autobiographical writings, exploring her thorough immersion in world spiritual traditions and how these studies informed both the form and content of her oeuvre. Di Prima's engagement in what she would call "the hidden religions" can be divided into several phases: her years at Swarthmore College and in New York; her move to San Francisco and immersion in Zen; her researches into the I Ching, Paracelsus, John Dee, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, alchemy, Tarot, and Kabbalah of the mid-sixties; and her later interest in Tibetan Buddhism. Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions is the first monograph devoted to a writer of genius whose prolific work is notable for its stylistic variety, wit and humor, struggle for social justice, and philosophical depth.

Author: David Stephen Calonne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 07/23/2020
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9781501366574

About the Author
David Stephen Calonne is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He is the author of William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being (1983), as well as the literary biographies Charles Bukowski (2012) and Henry Miller (2014). Most recently he has published The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats (2017) and Conversations with Gary Snyder (2017).

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