![]() When she was 14, di Prima began to see her home - Dishwashers. fragile somehow.'' Women ''are the very basis and ground of human life.'' She grew up believing that men were ''a luxury'' and she filled her life with them, cooking soup and producing five babies. The first lesson she absorbed (from her grandmother) was that ''men were peripheral. She spent her first seven years in a Brooklyn brownstone. She hints at all things bright and sinister, but they slip off the page somehow.ĭiane di Prima was born in the mid-30's. She tugs us toward mystery - the sweet and terrible vernacular mystery of daily life in the 1930's and 40's and with the beatniks, and the mysteries of what she, with her fondness for capital letters, would call Art and True Will but she leaves us in an opaque world, murky and indecipherable, a slag heap of incoherent, disjointed impressions. ![]() SHE never found a vocabulary for her inner life. ![]() ![]() Recollections of My Life as a Woman The New York Years: A Memoir. ![]()
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