Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions
Autor Dr David Stephen Calonneen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 ian 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501342905
ISBN-10: 1501342908
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501342908
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Shows that the Beat movement was composed not only of the famous three males-Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs-but also of a female member who possessed a comparable genius
Notă biografică
David Stephen Calonne is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He is the author of William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being (1983), as well as the literary biographies Charles Bukowski (2012) and Henry Miller (2014). Most recently he has published The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats (2017) and Conversations with Gary Snyder (2017).
Cuprins
List of FiguresIntroduction1. The Blood of the Poet, 1934-19522. Return to New York: From Ezra Pound to the I Ching, 1953-19603. Tell all the gods we're turning back to find them: From Dinners and Nightmares to Paracelsus, Alchemy and Tarot, 1961-19674. The Age of Aquarius and The Wolf: Revolutionary Letters, Monas Hieroglyphica, Loba, 1968-19795. The Hidden Religions, H.D., Angels, and Tibetan Buddhism, 1980-19926. Speech of the Heart, Poet Laureate of San Francisco, 1993 to the PresentNotesUniversity Library of Diane de Prima's WorkBibliographyIndex
Recenzii
One can't help but be staggered by the amount and depth of research that went into Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions-Calonne's study incorporates aspects of literary history, works by a wide range of authors, criticism specific to the Beats and associated circles, and texts by and about theologians, scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, philosophers, alchemists, and practitioners of occult mysteries. Beyond the considerable undertaking of explicating arcane and esoteric sources spanning more than ten centuries, his project of accounting for di Prima's full canon is daunting in and of itself. ... Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions is essential reading for scholars and students of di Prima and the Beats. It opens di Prima's canon in new ways and reveals fascinating lines of exchange between writers that add depth and dimension to Beat studies.
Calonne provides a real sense of the complexity and depth of an understudied, often overlooked, immense poetic figure. The book is generous in pointing out routes of access to such gorgeously complex poetry, refusing to keep the signs of Di Prima's magic to itself.
Undoubtedly one of the most important monographs to have been written in the last twenty years. [.] Supported by an extremely rich array of factual knowledge and period documentation, [it gives] a prolific female Beat writer the full central place too long denied her in the Beat pantheon and historical record.
To claim that Diane Di Prima deserves more attention is a gross understatement. Poet, activist, scholar, publisher, translator, and teacher, Di Prima was intimately involved in some of the major literary and cultural movements of the second half of the 20th century, from the Beat and avant-garde scene in 1950s New York to the later 1960s California counterculture, and beyond. Fortunately, Calonne's magisterial work Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions, the first book-length study that critically engages Di Prima and her writing, does an admirable job beginning to fill this void in the scholarship ... Calonne's intellectual biography manages to be both an important sourcebook for scholars in the field as well as an engaging read for anyone interested in the intellectual development of this singular thinker.
What is made definitively clear by Calonne's study is that there are many more publications by and about di Prima yet to come. Calonne has done a fine job delimiting areas of her work where arcane and occult source materials play a vital role.
Much needed ... The impressive variety of events, sources, connections and literary achievements in di Prima's career is interlaced with close readings of her lesser known and most famous works.
Di Prima not only deserves more recognition but wonderfully rewards it, and the greatest success of David Calonne's informed book is to match the breadth and depth of her thought and work, capturing her unique mix of the esoteric and the street-level, and attracting more readers to her uplifting visionary poetics and undimmed political radicalism.
Reading David Calonne's extraordinary study of Diane di Prima is to experience a true Renaissance mind in the body of a contemporary Italian-American woman. Taking readers from di Prima's often brutal childhood to her current status as revered poet activist, Calonne maps the contours of a woman who bridged Beat poetics with Hippy politics, embraced the hermetic traditions of artistic and environmental renewal, engaged with genuine integrity numerous social justice programs, galvanized the second-wave feminist movement, and persistently revelled in the multi-media realities of 20th- and 21st-century art communities. Calonne's book, a critical biography, testifies to the power of the imagination to create a life inseparable from art. It took far too long for a full-length study of di Prima to be written, so, many thanks to David Calonne for remedying that slight.
Calonne's book is a brilliant exploration of the core of di Prima's work, taking in her engagement with some of the most significant literary traditions of modernity, including Ezra Pound's new poetic languages and the visionary poetics of H.D., her reading of spirituality and eastern religions, and her role in the contemporary literary scene of America. This book is a long overdue academic appraisal of one of the most significant writers of her generation.
Calonne has written the first book-length critical study of Diane di Prima, one of America's greatest modern poets, and it is worthy of the large and enthusiastic readership she has inspired for over half a century. Seamlessly interweaving the legacies of the West and the East, di Prima observed, absorbed, and sometimes led the major cultural movements of the postwar U.S. from the Beat Generation to the feminist revolution. Contextualizing the poetry in her autobiographies, journals, lectures, and activism, Calonne explores the intellectual stringency, wit, and visionary pragmatism which distinguishes di Prima's art. Di Prima discovered early that 'the dark was luminous. That much I KNEW,' and now we know it too. A remarkable work of devoted scholarship.
Calonne provides a real sense of the complexity and depth of an understudied, often overlooked, immense poetic figure. The book is generous in pointing out routes of access to such gorgeously complex poetry, refusing to keep the signs of Di Prima's magic to itself.
Undoubtedly one of the most important monographs to have been written in the last twenty years. [.] Supported by an extremely rich array of factual knowledge and period documentation, [it gives] a prolific female Beat writer the full central place too long denied her in the Beat pantheon and historical record.
To claim that Diane Di Prima deserves more attention is a gross understatement. Poet, activist, scholar, publisher, translator, and teacher, Di Prima was intimately involved in some of the major literary and cultural movements of the second half of the 20th century, from the Beat and avant-garde scene in 1950s New York to the later 1960s California counterculture, and beyond. Fortunately, Calonne's magisterial work Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions, the first book-length study that critically engages Di Prima and her writing, does an admirable job beginning to fill this void in the scholarship ... Calonne's intellectual biography manages to be both an important sourcebook for scholars in the field as well as an engaging read for anyone interested in the intellectual development of this singular thinker.
What is made definitively clear by Calonne's study is that there are many more publications by and about di Prima yet to come. Calonne has done a fine job delimiting areas of her work where arcane and occult source materials play a vital role.
Much needed ... The impressive variety of events, sources, connections and literary achievements in di Prima's career is interlaced with close readings of her lesser known and most famous works.
Di Prima not only deserves more recognition but wonderfully rewards it, and the greatest success of David Calonne's informed book is to match the breadth and depth of her thought and work, capturing her unique mix of the esoteric and the street-level, and attracting more readers to her uplifting visionary poetics and undimmed political radicalism.
Reading David Calonne's extraordinary study of Diane di Prima is to experience a true Renaissance mind in the body of a contemporary Italian-American woman. Taking readers from di Prima's often brutal childhood to her current status as revered poet activist, Calonne maps the contours of a woman who bridged Beat poetics with Hippy politics, embraced the hermetic traditions of artistic and environmental renewal, engaged with genuine integrity numerous social justice programs, galvanized the second-wave feminist movement, and persistently revelled in the multi-media realities of 20th- and 21st-century art communities. Calonne's book, a critical biography, testifies to the power of the imagination to create a life inseparable from art. It took far too long for a full-length study of di Prima to be written, so, many thanks to David Calonne for remedying that slight.
Calonne's book is a brilliant exploration of the core of di Prima's work, taking in her engagement with some of the most significant literary traditions of modernity, including Ezra Pound's new poetic languages and the visionary poetics of H.D., her reading of spirituality and eastern religions, and her role in the contemporary literary scene of America. This book is a long overdue academic appraisal of one of the most significant writers of her generation.
Calonne has written the first book-length critical study of Diane di Prima, one of America's greatest modern poets, and it is worthy of the large and enthusiastic readership she has inspired for over half a century. Seamlessly interweaving the legacies of the West and the East, di Prima observed, absorbed, and sometimes led the major cultural movements of the postwar U.S. from the Beat Generation to the feminist revolution. Contextualizing the poetry in her autobiographies, journals, lectures, and activism, Calonne explores the intellectual stringency, wit, and visionary pragmatism which distinguishes di Prima's art. Di Prima discovered early that 'the dark was luminous. That much I KNEW,' and now we know it too. A remarkable work of devoted scholarship.