Not only do we need to oppose them; we need to be the opposite of them... "Kindness, compassion, generosity are often talked about as though they’re purely emotional virtues, but they are also and maybe first of all imaginative ones," and that imagination can be fed and encouraged--or starved... #DianeDiPrima , once said, "the only war that matters is the war against the imagination."
#FarawayNearby #RebeccaSolnit #WarOnImagination

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-for-the-imagination/

The War for the Imagination

I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sappho and Black Elk and others long since gone, meet ideas and possibilities, meet each other

Meditations in an Emergency
we are
endless as the sea, not separate, we die
a million times a day, we are born
a million times, each breath life and death:
get up, put on your shoes, get
started, someone will finish
–Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letter #2
#dianediprima

Heute vor 90 Jahren wurde Diane di Prima geboren.

Diane di Prima ist ein Anagramm von
Prima, dein Dia!

#Geburtstagsanagramm
#AnagrammTextperfekt
#Anagramm #Anagramme #TeamAnagramm
#DianeDiPrima

Fred W. McDarrah, Diane di Prima lisant son recueil de poésie This Kind of Bird Flies Backward au Gaslight Cafe de New York (1959), photographie monochrome.

#dianediprima

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumed in it." - The incendiary Diane di Prima.

#DianediPrima #imagination #courage #freedom #democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpBeQDUp7U

Diane di Prima Rant 1985

YouTube

This is an excellent and long article about the last remaining members of the Beat Generation (as of the article's publication in 2017). We overly romanticize the Beats but I still get inspired them, imperfect as they were and probably because of their imperfections.
#BeatGeneration #GarySnyder #MichaelMcClure #PhilipWhalen #AllenGinsberg #JackKerouac #DianediPrima #LawrenceFerlinghetti

(It might take your email to get access but I believe access is otherwise free.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/the-beat-generation/

Driving the Beat road

In a trip along the California coast, five remnants of the literary generation — in their 80s and 90s — are found at work, extending their legacy

Washington Post
Anyone else on here who is interested in #BeatPoets #Kerouac #DianeDiPrima ?? #Kerouac 's home in #Chelsea #NYC They were flawed humans, as we all are, but interesting.
Scrivo di Amiri Baraka .. ma scusate .. .. ..

di Sandro Sardella

La Bottega del Barbieri