{"product_id":"diane-di-prima-visionary-poetics-and-the-hidden-religions-9781501366574","title":"Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how central di Prima was in the discovery, articulation and dissemination of the major themes of the Beat and hippie countercultures from the fifties to the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDi Prima (1934--) was at the center of literary, artistic, and musical culture in New York City. She also was at the energetic fulcrum of the Beat movement and, with Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), edited \u003ci\u003eThe Floating Bear\u003c\/i\u003e (1961-69), a central publication of the period to which William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, and Frank O'Hara contributed. Di Prima was also a pioneer in her challenges to conventional assumptions regarding love, sexuality, marriage, and the role of women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Stephen Calonne charts the life work of di Prima through close readings of her poetry, prose, and autobiographical writings, exploring her thorough immersion in world spiritual traditions and how these studies informed both the form and content of her \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e. Di Prima's engagement in what she would call \"the hidden religions\" can be divided into several phases: her years at Swarthmore College and in New York; her move to San Francisco and immersion in Zen; her researches into the \u003ci\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e, Paracelsus, John Dee, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, alchemy, Tarot, and Kabbalah of the mid-sixties; and her later interest in Tibetan Buddhism. \u003ci\u003eDiane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions\u003c\/i\u003e is the first monograph devoted to a writer of genius whose prolific work is notable for its stylistic variety, wit and humor, struggle for social justice, and philosophical depth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Stephen Calonne \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWilliam Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), as well as the literary biographies \u003ci\u003eCharles Bukowski\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and \u003ci\u003eHenry Miller\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). Most recently he has published \u003ci\u003eThe Spiritual Imagination of the Beats\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and \u003ci\u003eConversations with Gary Snyder\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50371714908434,"sku":"9781501366574","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_94c48fdd-eeef-4260-9bf6-235e314183ed.jpg?v=1728537672","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/diane-di-prima-visionary-poetics-and-the-hidden-religions-9781501366574","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}