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.
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