Diane di Prima: Quick Facts

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Born	August 6, 1934 • New York City • New York
Died	October 25, 2020 (aged 86) • San Francisco • California
Founder	Amiri Baraka • “Floating Bear”
Notable Works	“22 Death Poems” • “Dinners and Nightmares” • “Earthsong: Poems 1957-1959” • “Freddie Poems” • “Memoirs of a Beatnik” • “Pieces of a Song” • “Poems for Freddie” • “Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years” • “The Book of Hours” • “The New Handbook of Heaven” • “This Kind of Bird Flies Backward” • “Zipcode”
Movement / Style	Beat movement