“Diane published many books and had many others in various stages of being ready,” he said Wednesday.ĭi Prima was known for her multi-part poem “Loba,” referred to at times as a feminist counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's “Howl!”, for the anthology “Pieces of a Song" for her fictionalized and explicit “Memoirs of a Beatnik” and for the autobiography “Recollections of My Life as a Woman.” During the Band's farewell concert in 1976 at the Fillmore in San Francisco, the basis for Martin Scorsese's documentary “The Last Waltz,” she recited three poems, including "Revolutionary Letter #4:ĭi Prima was a New York City native and drop out from Swarthmore College with enough literary talent and precocity to be corresponding with Ezra Pound in her late teens.
She had been writing poems almost to the end of her life, even as her arthritic hands forced her to dictate some to Powell. NEW YORK (AP) - Diane di Prima, a poet, activist and teacher who was one of the last surviving members of the Beats and one of the few women writers in the Beat movement, has died at age 86.ĭi Prima's longtime partner Sheppard Powell told The Associated Press that di Prima had been in failing health and died Sunday in San Francisco General Hospital.
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