Diane di Prima died in San Francisco on October 25, aged 86. "For Diane di Prima, the author of more than 40 works of poetry, prose and theater, writing was 'like being a hermit or a samurai. A calling. The holiest life that was offered in our world.' By her actions, she declared herself a conscientious objector to the bourgeois life of her childhood."
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"Studying my declensions, conjugating those verbs, the endless rote memorization of vocabulary, all felt meaningful in relation to this wild, instinctive possibility—that thinking was the body’s work, that apprehension in all its senses (grasping, fearing, knowing) was the thinking poetry could offer, a thought that is a sensation, as natural and instinctive as the hawk’s dive is to hawk or the mouse’s hiding is to the mouse, all eyes bright with purpose."
