Diane di Prima (1934-)

A selective list of literary criticism for Diane di Prima, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages

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Literary criticism

Foley, Jack. A review of di Prima's autobiography, Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years (Viking, 2001). Reviewed in The Alsopreview, 8/24/01

Kimmelman, Burt. "From Black Mountain College to St. Mark's Church: The Cityscape Poetics of Blackburn, di Prima, and Oppenheimer." Kimmelman contends that the poetry of Diane di Prima and others (in addition to the New York School) were important in the history of the St. Mark's Poetry Project. Rain Taxi, Spring 2002

Love, Jennifer. "No Girls Allowed: Women Poets and the Beat Generation," Women Writers [ejournal] 6/01/01

Some details of the reading "6 Poets at 6 Gallery" in San Francisco, 1955

A short biography of Diane di Prima from the Univ. of Louisville Library, along with a description on the di Prima papers owned by the library

A description of the Diane di Prima papers at the Univ. of Delaware library

Quinn, Roseanne Giannini. "The willingness to speak": Diane di Prima and Italian American feminist body politics. In MELUS, Fall, 2003 (taken offline at findarticles.com)

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