Diane Di Prima letters and poetry collection, 1957-1971.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Diane Di Prima letters and poetry collection, 1957-1971.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667225415

This collection consists of thirty letters and a collection of poems, all written by American poet, Diane Di Prima. Diane Di Prima's letters, spanning the dates 1962-1971, are written to her parents, Frank and Emma Di Prima. The collection of poetry, titled the Freddie Poems, consists of poems dated between 1957-1966. Freddie Poems was published in 1966 as Poems for Freddie and in 1974 as Freddie Poems.Freddie PoemsFreddie PoemsPoems for FreddieFreddie Poems

31 items (166 p.)

University of Delaware Library, Hugh M Morris Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7960025

University of Delaware Library, Hugh M Morris Library

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Di Prima, Diane, 1934-2020

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64v792z (person)

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...