Diane Di Prima and the Poetry Deal 12 by Ingrid Swanberg

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Diane Di Prima and the Poetry Deal 12 by Ingrid Swanberg GENDER & WOMEN’S STUDIES LIBRARIAN FEMINIST COLLECTIONS A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN’S STUDIES RESOURCES Volume 34 Numbers 3–4 Summer–Fall 2013 University of Wisconsin System Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources Gender & Women’s Studies Librarian University of Wisconsin System 430 Memorial Library 728 State St. Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-263-5754 Fax: 608-265-2754 Email: [email protected] Website: womenst.library.wisc.edu Facebook: facebook.com/womenst Twitter: @WisWSLibrarian Tumblr: uwgwslibrarian.tumblr.com/ Editors: Karla J. Strand, JoAnne Lehman Drawings: cover and pp. 7, 15, 16, & 17: Miriam Greenwald Photos: p. iv, JoAnne Lehman; p. 4, Beth Lehman Graphic design assistance: Daniel Joe Staff assistance: Elzbieta Beck, Melissa Dombek, Linda Fain, Lachrista Greco, Claire Vriezen, Emily Wessing Subscriptions: Wisconsin subscriptions: $10.00 (individuals affiliated with the UW System), $20.00 (organizations affili- ated with the UW System), $20.00 (individuals or non-profit women’s programs), $30.00 (institutions). Out-of-state sub- scriptions: $35.00 (individuals & women’s programs in the U.S.), $65.00 (institutions in the U.S.), $50.00 (individuals & women's programs in Canada/Mexico), $80.00 (institutions in Canada/Mexico), $55.00 (individuals & women's programs elsewhere outside the U.S.), $85.00 (institutions elsewhere outside the U.S.) Subscriptions include Feminist Collections, Feminist Periodicals, and New Books on Women, Gender, & Feminism. Wisconsin subscriber amounts include state tax (except UW organizations amount). All subscription rates include postage. Feminist Collections is indexed by Alternative Press Index, Women’s Studies International, and Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts. It is available in full text in Contemporary Women’s Issues and in Genderwatch. All back issues of Feminist Collections, beginning with Volume 1, Number 1 (February 1980), are archived in full text in the Minds@UW institutional repository: http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/254. Numerous research guides, bibliographies and other informational files are available on the Gender & Women’s Studies Librarian’s website, http://womenst.library.wisc.edu. You'll find information about the office, tables of contents and selected full-text articles from recent issues of Feminist Collections, tutorials, WAVE: Women’s Audio- visuals in English, a link to the Women’s Studies Core Books Database, full issues of Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents, and links to hundreds of other selected websites and databases on women and gender. Feminist Collections is a fully copyrighted publication. Permission must be specifically requested — in every instance — to reprint any of its content. Contact the editors at Feminist Collections, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706; email, [email protected]. ISSN: 0742-7441 © 2013 Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources Volume 34, Numbers 3–4, Summer–Fall 2013 CONTENTS From the New Librarian ii From the Editors iv BOOK REVIEWS Nothing in Common: Girls Who Became Women Artists 1 by Alison Gates Stories as Animal Advocacy Tactics: A Messy and Complicated Business 4 by Dianna Hunter FEMINIST VISIONS Searching for Their Place: Negotiating Female Identity in a Changing India 8 by Elzbieta Beck, Heather Shimon, & Melissa A. Young Eye to Eye: Diane di Prima and the Poetry Deal 12 by Ingrid Swanberg E-Sources on Women & Gender 14 New Reference Works in Women’s Studies 19 Periodical Notes 26 Books Recently Received 29 Subscription Form 31 FROM THE NEW LIBRARIAN I was asked by longtime editor I was a voracious reader and loved spent eleven happy, fruitful years at the JoAnne Lehman to write a column books and libraries. Despite this, I had Carroll Library. I was serving as the In- for this issue of Feminist Collections, never thought of pursuing librarian- terim Associate Director and enjoying introducing myself as the new Gender ship as a career until I began working being Diversity Librarian — a position & Women’s Studies Librarian for the in the library at Carroll in 2003. After I had created with my former direc- University of Wisconsin System. As graduating from Carroll that year, I tor six years earlier — and I had many you know, my esteemed predecessor, immediately began pursuing my MLIS amazing partnerships with colleagues Phyllis Holman Weisbard, retired last at UW-Milwaukee, completing it in around the campus and community. summer after holding this position for 2006. twenty-two years. So of course I want- Two weeks later, though, a ed to oblige, but I hemmed and hawed But this story is about a pencil… Carroll alumna with whom I wasn’t for weeks about where to begin…until familiar contacted me on Facebook. it dawned on me to start at the begin- She encouraged me to apply for the ning. And that beginning for me was position of Gender & Women’s Stud- a pencil. ies Librarian, insisting that while it That’s right, a pencil: a purple would be a vast change from Carroll, one, to be exact, with a white eraser. I the position would be a perfect fit for received this pencil at the table of the Back in 2002 at the conference, me. I was so taken aback at this gesture UW System’s Women’s Studies Librar- after I nervously presented my humble that I had to apply. I was nervous and ian at the 27th Annual UW System student’s opinion, I was meandering thrilled when I received a request for a Women’s Studies Conference in 2002. around the tables and came upon one phone interview and then an in-person It was the first time I had presented at which I was given this purple pen- interview. at an academic conference. As an un- cil with the white eraser. I took the Because it had all unfolded so aus- dergraduate at Carroll College (albeit pencil and read the printing on the piciously, I decided to go through the a “non-traditional,” single-mothering side: “Visit the UW Women’s Studies interview process being as transparent one, with a full-time job and four- Librarian,” with the URL of the office’s as possible. I thought, “If they see the year-old son), I was there to provide a website. real me and think that I am a fit, then student’s perspective of embodiment it is meant to be!” So while I was un- and the use of visual imagery to teach Women’s Studies Librarian? I had certain whether or not it was the right gender. I was so excited and honored no idea there was such a thing! What thing to do, I shared with the search to be on the panel with three of my a fantastic job! To combine women’s committee the story of the purple pen- most respected Carroll professors, Drs. studies and books?? While still having cil and the message from the unknown Lori Duin Kelly, Kimberly Redding, no designs on librarianship, I walked student, both of which had made such and Barb King. away with that pencil and kept it for a big impact on me. many years. I went to that website, I was studying history and followed Phyllis’s posts on email lists of I cannot adequately express how women’s studies at Carroll at the time, which we were both a part, took notice ecstatic I was to be offered this posi- determined to finally finish my Bach- of the events we both attended, and tion. While it was difficult to leave elor’s degree. After Carroll, I planned read the publications of the Office of Carroll, a place full of people and to earn advanced degrees at UW– the Women’s Studies Librarian. experiences so important to my profes- Madison and become a professor of In 2013, I was shocked to see that sional, academic, and personal devel- history and/or women’s studies. Before after twenty-two years, Phyllis Holman opment, I knew I had to jump at the I could take that path, however, I was Weisbard was retiring. I must have opportunity for this, my dream job. It offered a full-time support staff posi- looked at the job description posted was serendipity. tion in Carroll’s Todd Wehr Memorial by the search committee for hiring And so, I began this amazing jour- Library. Like most librarians will say, her successor, but I didn’t seriously ney in October 2013, spending time consider applying. By this time I had with Phyllis during my first few weeks Page ii Feminist Collections (v. 34, nos. 3–4, Summer–Fall 2013) on the job. She is such a wealth of to that “unknown” alumna…who is sions of excitement and inspiration as knowledge and experience! I kept hear- also named Karla, and for whom, after she looked ahead to the challenges and ing from others how difficult it would I accepted the position, I bought a cup opportunities of this position. I must be for me to fill such big shoes…not of coffee as a small gesture of my enor- express gratitude to her for continuing a real confidence-builder! All kidding mous gratitude. I learned an amazing to share her time and wisdom with aside, though, everyone has been ex- lesson in believing in oneself from all me, for building this office and posi- tremely supportive and kind during of you. Thank you, also, to the staff of tion into the force for change that it this major life transition and for this, the General Library System at Madi- is, and for, as she aptly put it in her I will always be grateful — to my col- son and especially to the most amazing final column in the Winter–Spring leagues at Carroll, especially the library employees a librarian could work with: 2013 issue of FC, passing on to me staff and my mentor and former direc- JoAnne, Linda, Lachrista, Bess, Mel, “the opportunity to have the best job tor, Lelan McLemore; to Lori, Kimber- and Emily.
Recommended publications
  • The Spirit of the People Will Be Stronger Than the Pigs’ Technology”
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2017 “THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE WILL BE STRONGER THAN THE PIGS’ TECHNOLOGY” An exhibition, a symposium, and a month-long series of events re-examining the interdependent legacies of revolutionary poetry and the militant left in the United States, with a spotlight on Allen Van Newkirk’s Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets (Detroit, Mich. & New York City: 1967-1968) and the recent & upcoming 50th anniversaries of the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif. (1966) and the White Panther Party in Detroit, Mich. (1968) including a presentation of rare ephemera from both groups. Exhibition: 9 November – 29 December 2017 @ Fortnight Institute Symposium: 17 November 2017 @ NYU Page 1 of 6 E XHIBITION A complete run of Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets serves as the focal point for an exhibition of r evolutionar y le fti s t posters , bro adsides, b oo ks, and ep hemera, ca. 196 4-197 0, a t East Villag e ( Manhattan) a rt gall e ry Fortnight Institute, opening at 6 pm on Thu rsd ay, Novemb er 9 , 2017 a nd c ontinuing through Sun day, December 29. Th e displa y also inc lude s rare, orig inal print m ate rials a nd p osters fro m the Bl ack Pan ther Party, Whi t e Panther Party , Young Lords a nd ot her revolu tion ary g roups. For t he d u ration of the exhib itio n, Fortnig ht Institute will also house a readin g room stock ed with cha pbooks and pa perbacks from leftist mili tant poets o f the era, many of w hose works we re p rinted in G uerrill a, includ ing LeRo i Jones, Diane Di P rima, M arga ret Ran dall, Reg is Deb ray an d o thers.
    [Show full text]
  • POETS HATING POETRY Can’T Anyone Give Poetry a Break? by Ryan Stuart Lowe
    Spring | Summer 2017 OKLAHOMA HUMANITIES Culture | Issues | Ideas dLearning to love like not hate poetry 2017—A Year of New Initiatives At Oklahoma Humanities, the will explore this challenging period in year 2017 begins with continued our nation’s history. Concurrent with the ANN THOMPSON commitment to serving the public magazine and local programming will Executive Director through inspired and inspiring cultural be the September debut of an 18-hour, experiences. In addition to successful NEH-funded Ken Burns documentary programs like Museum on Main Street; on PBS called The Vietnam War. Our Let’s Talk About it, Oklahoma; Oklahoma objective in focusing on the Vietnam era Humanities magazine; and, of course, is to remind those of us who remember our grants program; we’re working on the war to think critically of lessons special initiatives that we’re proud to learned (and not learned) from the war, bring to our state. and to inform younger generations of First, through a partnership with the challenging issues of that period the Ralph Ellison Foundation, we are that continue to impact our national sponsoring a series of public meetings identity—the civil rights movement, on race relations in Oklahoma. Using the the changing roles of women, student texts of one of Oklahoma’s most esteemed writers and favorite sons, the Foundation activism, how we treat veterans, and the will encourage community conversations roles of music, literature, television, and to foster greater understanding and to the media in forming American opinion. promote the common good. This year promises to be meaningful Second is a multi-faceted look at the and rich in opportunities and, as always, Vietnam era.
    [Show full text]
  • 9564.Ch01.Pdf
    one · Gender and the Problem of Prehistory IMAGINING PREHISTORY To examine the contested issue of gender in ancient Near Eastern prehistory, I be- gin with a definition of the period. Prehistory is the time before the invention of writing (which took place around 3500 bce in the ancient Near East). This period is divided into several major eras of human development in eastern Europe and the ancient Near East: late Paleolithic (c. 30,000–9000 bce), proto-Neolithic and Neo- lithic (c. 9000–5600 bce), and Calcolithic (5600–3500 bce). In the European late Paleolithic, we begin to have some evidence of human creative consciousness in the form of cave paintings, figurines, and tools decorated with designs or with figures of animals or humans. The Neolithic is divided from the Paleolithic by the move- ment from food gathering (hunting and collecting fruits, nuts, and plants) to food growing and domestication of animals. The Calcolithic describes a time of more developed agriculture (including the use of the plow and irrigation) as well as trade and early urbanization. The Neolithic revolution took place gradually in the ancient Near East between 9000 and 7000 bce. At first, herds of wild animals or areas of wild grains were cor- doned oª and controlled by more settled human groups; later, with full domestica- tion, animals were bred for food, milk, or skins, and seeds were conserved for plant- ing grains. These innovations developed along parallel lines in several places in the ancient Near East and spread to other nearby areas. There was not a uniform, straightforward pattern of development.
    [Show full text]
  • World Archaeology, Vol
    Feminisms, Queer Theories, and the Archaeological Study of Past Sexualities Author(s): Barbara L. Voss Source: World Archaeology, Vol. 32, No. 2, Queer Archaeologies (Oct., 2000), pp. 180-192 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/827864 Accessed: 23-08-2015 06:25 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Taylor & Francis, Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to World Archaeology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 159.178.22.27 on Sun, 23 Aug 2015 06:25:36 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Feminisms,queer theories,and the archaeologicalstudy of past sexualities Barbara L. Voss Abstract Archaeologyfaces the unique challenge of stretchingsocial theories of sexuality in newchrono- logicaland methodological directions. This essay uses an analysisof citational practices to consider how feministand queertheories articulate with archaeological investigations of sexuality.Both queertheories and feminist archaeological practices are shown to be powerfultools that can be used to expandarchaeological interpretations ofgender and sexuality. Keywords Sexuality;gender; queer theory; feminism; history of archaeology. There is another social functionof gender to be considered and that is the social markingof sexuallyappropriate partners...
    [Show full text]
  • Poetics at New College of California
    The University of San Francisco USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship Gleeson Library | Geschke Center 2-2020 Assembling evidence of the alternative: Roots and routes: Poetics at New College of California Patrick James Dunagan University of San Francisco, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.usfca.edu/librarian Part of the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Dunagan, Patrick James, "Assembling evidence of the alternative: Roots and routes: Poetics at New College of California" (2020). Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship. 30. https://repository.usfca.edu/librarian/30 This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Gleeson Library | Geschke Center at USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship by an authorized administrator of USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ASSEMBLING EVIDENCE OF THE ALTERNATIVE: Roots And Routes POETICS AT NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA Anthology editor Patrick James Dunagan presenting material co-written with fellow anthology editors Marina Lazzara and Nicholas James Whittington. abstract The Poetics program at New College of California (ca. 1980-2000s) was a distinctly alien presence among graduate-level academic programs in North America. Focused solely upon the study of poetry, it offered a truly alternative approach to that found in more traditional academic settings. Throughout the program's history few of its faculty possessed much beyond an M.A.
    [Show full text]
  • Diane Di Prima
    Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU ENGL 6350 – Beat Exhibit Student Exhibits 5-5-2016 Diane Di Prima McKenzie Livingston Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/beat_exhibit Recommended Citation Livingston, McKenzie, "Diane Di Prima" (2016). ENGL 6350 – Beat Exhibit. 2. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/beat_exhibit/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Exhibits at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in ENGL 6350 – Beat Exhibit by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Livingston 1 Diane DiPrima’s Search for a Familiar Truth The image of Diane DiPrima∗ sitting on her bed in a New York flat, eyes cast down, is emblematic of the Beat movement. DiPrima sought to characterize her gender without any constraints or stereotypes, which was no simple task during the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the other Beats, who were predominately male, wrote and practiced varying degrees of misogyny, while DiPrima resisted with her characteristic biting wit. In the early days of her writing (beginning when she was only thirteen), she wrote about political, social, and environmental issues, aligning herself with Timothy Leary’s LSD Experiment in 1966 and later with the Black Panthers. But in the latter half of her life, she shifted focus and mostly wrote of her family and the politics contained therein. Her intention was to find stable ground within her familial community, for in her youth and during the height of the Beat movement, she found greater permanence in the many characters, men and women, who waltzed in and out of her many flats.
    [Show full text]
  • Beat Culture and the Grateful Dead
    Beat Culture and the Grateful Dead OVERVIEW ESSENTIAL QUESTION How did beat writers like Jack Kerouac influence the Grateful Dead’s music? OVERVIEW Note to teacher: The handout in this lesson contains descriptions of drug use. Our hope is that the language used, which quite often details the repulsive nature of addiction rather than glamorizing it, will paint a realistic, and not desirable picture of drug use. However, we suggest reviewing the handout and making a plan for using it with your classroom before working with the lesson. In post-WWII America, a radical new movement took over the literary world. Anchored by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, the Beat Generation, as they came to be known, viewed conventional American culture with disillusionment. They embraced things like free sexuality and drug use, explorations of Eastern religion, and a shirking of materialism in favor of a liberated lifestyle. One of the era’s most definitive works, Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On the Road, explores these themes through a semi-autobiographical road trip across America. By the 1960s, the ideals expounded by the Beats were perhaps no better exemplified in musical culture than by the Grateful Dead. For their 30-year career, the Grateful Dead embraced the liberating, always-on-the-move lifestyle promoted by works such as Kerouac’s On the Road. The band eschewed industry conventions by becoming a perpetual “road band,” gaining a reputation not through chart hits, lavish studio recordings, or flashy media appearances, but via ceaseless touring and adventurous, inclusive,and always-changing live performances.
    [Show full text]
  • Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
    Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Theory and Practice, Aesthetics and Politics, 1963-1983 Nicolas Helm-Grovas Royal Holloway, University of London PhD, Media Arts 1 Declaration of Authorship I, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated. 15 January, 2018 2 Abstract This PhD is a genealogy and critical examination of the writings and films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, spanning the period from the early 1960s to 1980s. Despite the prominence of their texts, there has not been a book-length study of either body of writing, nor an overview of their overlap and mutual influence, in what was their most productive period. Nor has there been an extended account of the important connection between their theory and their practice as filmmakers. My thesis undertakes these tasks. I interpret and challenge existing scholarship, while simultaneously examining in detail for the first time lesser-known works, drawing on archives and interviews. Through close readings I elucidate Mulvey’s interrogation of the patriarchal fantasies structuring cinematic and artistic forms and her feminist appropriation of classical Hollywood melodrama; I map the related issues Wollen’s texts activate, of cinematic signification and materialism, the buried potentialities of the historical avant-gardes, and their connection to the avant-garde film contemporaneous with his writings. Their moving image works, I demonstrate through detailed analyses, bring these ideas into dialogue and work them through in a more open, exploratory vein. I trace key notions like ‘counter cinema’ across films and writings by both authors.
    [Show full text]
  • The Beat Generation: Collaboration and Community
    The Beat Generation: Collaboration and Community Flores ACRL Literatures in English Section (LES) and Arts Sections Saturday, June 16, 2001, 2-4 p.m. - Argent Hotel Followed by a reception at City Lights Book Store, 261 Columbus Ave., 4-6 p.m. The Beat Generation created a rich legacy of books, periodicals, polemical and creative ephemera, music, and art works that have enriched libraries, museums, bookstores, and publishers, and that permanently altered the cultural landscape of America. These writers and artists collaborated in poetry readings, jazz, writing-inspired dance and films, and often in their personal lives. Our speakers will describe the cultural community of the Beat Generation's literature, visual arts, and dance. Honored guests in our audience are Diane di Prima and Lawrence Ferlinghetti; book signing to follow the program. • Beat Writers ¾ Ann Charters • Beat Writers Artists ¾ Bill Morgan • Beat and Beat-Related Painting ¾ Paul Karlstrom • Dancer Anna Halprin ¾ Janice Ross • Reading from His Poetry ¾ Michael McClure SPEAKERS: Dr. Charters is Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, and an author and editor of many books inclucing The Portable Beat Reader (Viking, 1992). Dr. Karlstrom is the Director of the West Coast Research Center, Archives of American Art, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Michael McClure is one of the original Beat poets. He continues to write and tours with musician Ray Manzarek. For more information see: http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/mcclure/mcclure.htm http://www.mcclure-manzarek.com/Michael-main.html. Bill Morgan is a painter, author, bibliographer, collector and the editor of Allen Ginsberg's Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952-1995 (HarperCollins, 2000) and other books on the Beat Generation.
    [Show full text]
  • Diane Di Prima in the West
    Journal X Volume 8 Number 1 Autumn 2003 Article 2 2020 The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane di Prima in the West Timothy Gray College of Staten Island, City University of New York Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jx Part of the American Literature Commons Recommended Citation Gray, Timothy (2020) "The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane di Prima in the West," Journal X: Vol. 8 : No. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jx/vol8/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal X by an authorized editor of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Gray: The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane di Prima in the Wes "The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine": Diane di Prima in the West Timothy Gray Timothy Gray is In Minor Characters, her memoir of growing up Assistant Professor in the Beat Generation, Joyce Johnson describes of English at the a moment in 1947 when Jack Kerouac, languish­ College of Staten ing in his mother's apartment in Queens, began Island, City Univer­ to dream of a life on the road: sity of New York. He has published on Frank O'Hara, In Ozone Park, the evenings were as James Schuyler, drowsy as his memories of boyhood. In Gary Snyder, and the eternal, spotless order of his mother's Greil Marcus in kitchen, a long subway ride from the all- such journals as night haunts of Times Square, he spread Contemporary Liter­ maps out on the table after the dishes ature, Genre and were cleared, and like a navigator plot­ Prospects: An ted the route of his contemplated jour­ Annual of Ameri­ ney.
    [Show full text]
  • San José Studies, Fall 1993
    San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks San José Studies, 1990s San José Studies Fall 10-1-1993 San José Studies, Fall 1993 San José State University Foundation Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sanjosestudies_90s Part of the American Literature Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation San José State University Foundation, "San José Studies, Fall 1993" (1993). San José Studies, 1990s. 12. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sanjosestudies_90s/12 This Journal is brought to you for free and open access by the San José Studies at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in San José Studies, 1990s by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sa~e p64i Ste«tie4 Volume XIX, Number 3 Fall, 1993 EDITORS John Engell, English, San Jose State University D. Mesher, English, San Jose State University EMERITUS EDITOR Fauneil J. Rinn, Political Science, San Jose State University ASSOCIATE EDITORS Susan Shillinglaw, English, San Jose State University William Wiegand, Emeritus, Creative Writing, San Francisco State Kirby Wilson, Creative Writing, Cabrillo College EDITORIAL BOARD Garland E. Allen, Biology, Washington University Judith P. Breen, English, San Francisco State University Hobart W. Bums, Philosophy, San Jose State University Robert Casillo, English, ·university ofMiami, Coral Gables Richard Flanagan, Creative Writing, Babson College Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, English, Stanford University Robert C. Gordon, English and Humanities, San Jose State University Richard E. Keady, Religious Studies, San Jose State University Jack Kurzweil, Electrical Engineering, San Jose State University Hank Lazer, English, University ofAlabama Lela A. Llorens, Occupational Therapy, San Jose State University Lois Palken Rudnik, American Studies, University ofMassachusetts, Boston Richard A.
    [Show full text]
  • Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions
    European journal of American studies Reviews 2020-2 David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions Erik Mortenson Electronic version URL: https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15988 ISSN: 1991-9336 Publisher European Association for American Studies Electronic reference Erik Mortenson, “David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions”, European journal of American studies [Online], Reviews 2020-2, Online since 26 June 2020, connection on 12 July 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15988 This text was automatically generated on 12 July 2021. Creative Commons License David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Relig... 1 David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions Erik Mortenson 1 David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions. 2 New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 313. ISBN 978-1-5013-4290-5. 3 Erik Mortenson 4 To claim that Diane Di Prima deserves more attention is a gross understatement. Poet, activist, scholar, publisher, translator, and teacher, Di Prima was intimately involved in some of the major literary and cultural movements of the second half of the 20th century, from the Beat and avant-garde scene in 1950s New York to the later 1960s California counterculture, and beyond. Fortunately, Calonne’s magisterial work Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions, the first book-length study that critically engages Di Prima and her writing, does an admirable job beginning to fill this void in the scholarship. 5 Di Prima is a difficult writer to classify.
    [Show full text]