Stoking the FireREVOLUTIONARY LETTER #26
By: Diane di Prima
‘DOES THE END
JUSTIFY THE MEANS?’ this is
process, there is no end, there are only
means, each one
had better justify itself.
To whom?
bsmall2Not 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
Jamie Twe 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
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
H. Lindorfer | TextperfektHeute vor 90 Jahren wurde Diane di Prima geboren.
Diane di Prima ist ein Anagramm von
Prima, dein Dia!
#Geburtstagsanagramm
#AnagrammTextperfekt
#Anagramm #Anagramme #TeamAnagramm
#DianeDiPrima
MaiakowskaFred 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.
Will 
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumed in it." - The incendiary Diane di Prima.
Diane di Prima Rant 1985
Tucker TeagueThis 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/
Ranger DanAnyone 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.
Bottega Del BarbieriScrivo di Amiri Baraka .. ma scusate .. .. ..
di Sandro Sardella
scrivo di Amiri Baraka .. ma scusate se prima
https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/scrivo-di-amiri-baraka-ma-scusate/
#bottegadelbarbieri #labottegadelbarbieri
#Articoli #Poesia #abrigliasciolta #AlessandroGiannì #AmiriBaraka #blues #culturaafroamericana #DianediPrima #EverettLeRoiJones #inferno #jazz #jazzpoetry #LeRoiJones #LucianoRossetti #MarcoFazzini #MusicaJazz(rivista) #Pabuda #SandroGianni #SandroSardella
