![]() ![]() She describes her bohemian lifestyle-love affairs with men and women, experiments with drugs-with honesty and wit. Leaving Swarthmore College after what she perceived as unproductive years, di Prima returned to New York City, and embarked on an independent life as a writer. In elementary school, di Prima was bullied relentlessly it was not until she entered Hunter High School for gifted students that she found a circle of friends there, reading the great poets, she resolved to become a poet herself. But she describes frightening incidents from her earliest childhood: her father, a sullen, brooding, man, once beat her until her nose bled her relationship with her mother was equally abusive. Born in Brooklyn in the mid-1930s, she remembers her Italian immigrant grandmother with great affection. ![]() Di Prima, perhaps the best known and certainly among the most talented of the beat generation poets, captures the heady atmosphere of New York's avant-garde community in the 1950s and 1960s, while rendering her own life with intimacy and grace. ![]()
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