Diane Di Prima papers, 1955-2007.

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Diane Di Prima papers, 1955-2007.

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The collection contains the correspondence, writings, notebooks, printed materials and notes, audio-visual material, and other items of Diane Di Prima. Correspondents include Di Prima's friends, family, students, editors, and publishers. Among the letters is an undated postcard from Ezra Pound. Topics include Di Prima's writings, comments on works submitted for editing by Di Prima, family activities, and Di Prima's health, among other matters. There are also notebooks in which Di Prima recorded her daily activities, dreams, poems, travels, health, and other matters; calendars; books of phone messages; and other notebooks. Among the writings are multiple drafts of "Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years" and her long poem "Loba." There are also drafts of lectures given by Di Prima, unpublished short works written by her, "Memoirs of a Beatnik," and her unpublished book "Not Quite Buffalo Stew." There are also some published and unpublished works by other authors. Also included are periodicals, including poetry journals and zines collected by Di Prima; printed fliers, programs, catalogs, and other items related to poetry events and educational opportunities; handwritten notes on various topics; materials from conferences Di Prima attended; financial materials; and drawings and artwork. Photographic materials include photograph albums; photographic prints; and slides of Diane Di Prima, her family, and her travels across the United States. Moving image materials are primarily recordings of readings of Di Prima's poems and interviews conducted with her. Audio materials are recordings of classes taught by Di Prima and recordings of readings of her poetry.

ca. 17500 items (53.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7168075

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Di Prima, Diane, 1934-2020

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Diane Di Prima was born on 6 August 1934 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended Swarthmore College, but dropped out in 1953 to move to Manhattan and become a writer. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she joined the emerging Beat movement. She was the editor of the newsletter The Floating Bear with LeRoi Jones, 1961-1969. In 1966, she moved to Millbrook, N.Y., to live in Timothy Leary's community. She moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 1968. In California, she taught at such institutions as the New Coll...

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...