I think I was one of the first women to break through that.īorn in Brooklyn in 1934, Diane di Prima studied at Swarthmore College – one of the first colleges in the United States to accept both men and women – before dropping out to become a poet. However great your visioning and your inspiration, you need the techniques of the craft and there’s nowhere, really, to get them… They are passed on person to person, and back then the male naturally passed them on to the male. In a 1980s interview, Diane di Prima, one of the few female writers of the Beat Generation, commented on this issue in relation to her craft: There is a special brand of suspicion in some female circles towards women who purport to be ‘one of the lads’ the sisterhood demands loyalty, but often infiltrating the boys’ club is the only way to beat it.
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