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The Beats : a graphic history
Details the history of the Beat movement, which began in the 1940s, and describes the lives of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs; along with other writers, artists, and events in a graphic novel format.
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Wild Intelligence
Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of
the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as
significant sites for the information boom, it is unsurprising that
McCarthyism and censorship would shape what they granted readers
access to and acquired. Wild Intelligence traces a
different history of information management, examining the
privately assembled collections of poets and their
knowledge-building practices at midcentury.
Taking up case studies of four poets who began writing during
the 1950s and 1960s, including Charles Olson (1910-1970), Diane di
Prima (1934-2020), Gerrit Lansing (1928-2018), and Audre Lorde
(1934-1992), M. C. Kinniburgh shows that the postwar American
poet's library should not just be understood according to
individual books within their collection but rather as an archival
resource that reveals how poets managed knowledge in a growing era
of information overload. Exploring traditions and systems that had
been overlooked, buried, occulted, or censored, these poets sought
to recover a sense of history and chart a way forward.
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On Webbed Monsters, Revolutionary Activists and Plutonium Glow: Eco-Crisis in Diane di Prima and Anne Waldman
Though green readings of Beat works are a relatively new phenomenon, the Beat aesthetic easily meets Lawrence Buell’s criteria for ecocritical texts. Indeed, many writers associated with the Beat movement, such as Diane di Prima and Anne Waldman, often use their work to give shape to environmental concerns. This article studies the development of a green poetics in the work of both di Prima and Waldman. Focusing on works spanning four decades including Revolutionary Letters (1971), Loba (1998), Uh Oh Plutonium (1982) or The Iovis Trilogy (2011), to name a few, the article analyzes the poets’ use of utopian and dystopian images through which they develop a poetics of eco-crisis that opposes the conformism and political tension of the American postwar and its aftermath.
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Intertextuality in Diane di Prima’s Loba: Religious Discourse and Feminism
The last three decades have witnessed a significant increase in the academic interest in the Beat Generation. No longer seen as “know-nothing bohemians” (Podhoretz 1958), scholars have extended the scope of Beat studies, either by generating renewed interest in canonical authors, by expanding the understanding of what Beat means, or by broadening the aesthetic or theoretical lens through which we read Beat writers and poets. Among these, the transnational perspective on Beat writing has sparked careful re-examinations of Beat authors and their works that seek to recognize, among other things, the impact that transnational cultures and literatures have had on Beat writers. Diane di Prima’s long poem Loba (Di Prima 1998), a feminist epic the poet started writing in the early 1970s, draws on a vast array of transnational texts and influences. Most notoriously, di Prima works with mythological and religious texts to revise and challenge the representation of women throughout history. This paper explores di Prima’s particular use of world narratives in light of a feminist poetics and politics of revision. Through the example of “Eve” and the “Virgin Mary”, two of the many female characters whose textual representation is challenged in Loba, the first part of the paper considers di Prima’s use of gnostic and Christian discourses and their impact on her feminist politics of revision. The second part of the paper situates Loba in the specific context of Second-Wave feminism and the rise of Goddess Movement feminist groups. Drawing from the previous analysis, this part reevaluates di Prima’s collection in light of the essentialist debate that analyzes the texts arising from this tradition as naïve and apolitical.
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The Art of Life, the Dance of Poetry: Gender, Experiment and Experience in Mina Loy and Diane di Prima
Mina Loy and Diane di Prima’s experimental poetic contributions to their early “situational avant-gardes” (the 1910s Modernists and late 1950s Beats in New York) vindicated the relation of gender and experiment within their countercultural movements, redefining these groups’ poetic and ideological tenets. Firstly, I will connect and contextualize these two poets as part of American feminist avant-garde tradition. Then, I will study their early poetry’s specificities and their common particularity: a gendered approach to the interconnectivity between experiment and experience. The article develops the idea that Loy and di Prima’s “motional” poetics of alternate forces of expression and linguistic experimentation is a dynamic materialization of the ambivalence involved in their bodily and spatial experiences of inclusion and exclusion as bohemian women poets in their urban environment and their artistic communities. The last section theorizes the way these embodied positionalities, and the continuum formed by environment, space, body and language, interrelate with Loy and di Prima’s feminist motional avant-garde poetics based on material feminist philosophies and postmodern and experimental literary critics’ views.
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The Loba’s Howl A Comparative Reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Diane di Prima’s “The Loba Recovers the Memory of a Mare”
Tendo em conta o poema “The Loba Recovers the Memory of a Mare” de Diane di Prima e “Howl” de Allen Ginsberg, este ensaio aborda não só a forma como os autores apresentam semelhanças ao nível dos seus métodos de escrita “beat” e tradição poética, mas também acentua as disparidades entre os dois, revelando a necessidade de maior visibilidade das narrativas de teor feminista. Este ensaio começa não só por enfatizar a vida e obra de Diane di Prima como também a sua relação com Allen Ginsberg, tomando os dois como contrapartes poéticos no contexto da Geração Beat. A intenção de Ginsberg de cantar sobre as melhores mentes da sua geração parece incompleta, porque em “Howl” falha quer na referência a poetas femininas quer na visão da mulher, reduzida a objeto sexual. Através de uma lente de estudos feminista, este ensaio acentua o contributo incontornável de Diane di Prima para a Geração Beat, discutindo a forma como a poeta problematiza o papel da mulher em sociedade, como é oprimida, e as formas que encontra para lutar contra isso. A partir da personagem-título da sua coletânea poética de caráter épico, “Loba”, este ensaio pretende explorar o conceito de “feminine rage” ligado à segunda vaga de feminismo nos Estados Unidos da América nas décadas de 60 e 70 e a ascensão de movimentos de feminismo radical que pretendiam fazer uso da frustração e raiva da mulher contra o patriarcado e o status quo. Ao ecoar Allen Ginsberg, Di Prima apropria-se de “Howl” e feminiza o poema, revisitando e recuperando o lugar da mulher na sociedade.
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Fluid Roles and Fragmented Time in Diane di Prima’s “The Discontent of the Russian Prince”
This article explores the fragmentation and temporal rupture in Diane di Prima’s lesser-known yet captivating play, “The Discontent of the Russian Prince” (1959), a work that broadens the Beat fragmentation aesthetic and contests traditional notions of narrative chronology. Going beyond gender commentary, the article scrutinizes other intriguing aspects of di Prima’s dramatic text, including metatextual references, stage directions, and character dynamics. We analyze instances from the play and concentrate on di Prima's efforts to contest traditional notions of dramatic space, speaker ambiguity, and temporality. Through contingent outcomes and fragmentation, “The Discontent of the Russian Prince” undermines linear narrative chronology and cultivates a rich sense of temporal polyphony. By examining this lesser-known play, our research promotes further investigation of underrepresented dramatic works within the Beat movement and updates our understanding of di Prima.
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