Who? Diane di Prima is one of the few female writers to have been acknowledged as an integral member of the Beat Generation. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934, she was strong-willed and determined from an early age, dropping out of high school to pursue a life as a poet. At the age of nineteen she struck up a correspondance with Ezra Pound, and thereafter visited him regularly in a psychiatric hospital in Washington.
By 1957, she was living in Greenwich Village,…
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