Pieces of a Song: Selected PoemsDiane di Prima Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank OHara and Audre Lorde. After joining Timothy Learys intentional community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968.

how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners’ ideas about Asians

and as a research assistant in limnology

‘Ik hoor Ghayath Almadhoun voor het eerst tijdens een interview met zijn vertaalster Djûke Poppinga

Lawrence University granted her an honorary doctorate

often collaboratively with Joseph Minden

From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre at Sandy Hook

political and aesthetic liberty

vol mededoogen / Een vader

De roodgevleugelde jongen Geryon is onsterfelijk verliefd op Herakles

and though she asks “is trembling/always bad

feverishly alive

The form brims here pleasurably with dogs