![]() ![]() ![]() He encouraged her to walk the path of the poet, a path that led, like Dante’s journey, into the unknown.ĭiane di Prima was born and raised in Brookyln, New York. Domenico was an Italian Anarchist, a skilled tailor by trade, and a mentor to his granddaughter, whom he treated as an intellectual equal. She encountered poetry through Dante at an early age, at the knee of her maternal grandfather Domenico Mallozzi. Di Prima’s existence was impossible to pin down, marked by surprising encounters with human wisdom at its most fundamental. ![]() Something about the dazzling vastness of Dante’s allegory feels just right for invoking the great courage and imagination of America’s pre-eminent poet of revolution, who passed away on 25 October this year at the age of eighty-six. If I could choose a single literary touchstone with which to anchor the remarkable life of Diane di Prima – poet, activist, teacher, healer, mother, weaver of worlds – it would be Dante’s Divina Commedia. ![]()
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