{"id":48351,"date":"2021-10-25T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=48351"},"modified":"2021-10-25T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:35:34","slug":"remembering-diane-di-prima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/10\/remembering-diane-di-prima.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Diane di Prima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A memorial issue of the Swiss magazine Fabrikzeitung<\/a> pays tribute to her poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She who <\/em><\/strong>\n\nshe whose face we have never seen she whose body is\n a door to the world she whose black thighs gleam w\/ oil\nw\/ fat & oil\n\nshe whose laughter is the earthquake\nshe whose inhalation is the end of time\n\nwho can compass her round w\/ his arms?\nwho can penetrate to the depth of her desire?\n\nstars are the seed pearls she sets on her flesh\nthey are the milk of her breasts & the juice of her love \nher orgasm shakes the dark worlds to their depths\n\nthe lord of the dead stirs uneasy on his throne he is one \nof the teeth in her mouth\n\nher daughters stream w\/ flaming hair from the portals of \nhell they are the goddesses we can name, we name\nthem Nut\nwe name them Kali & Olokun, Omphale & Mara\n\nit is at their hands that the gods of men receive power.\n\n\u2014 Diane di Prima\n<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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A memorial issue of the Swiss magazine Fabrikzeitung pays tribute to her poetry. <\/p>\n
‘she whose face we have never seen
\nshe whose body is a door to the world . . .<\/p>\n
stars are the seed pearls she sets on her flesh
\nthey are the milk of her breasts & the juice of her love
\nher orgasm shakes the dark worlds to their depths’ \u2014 DdP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FABRIKZEITUNG-Diane-di-Prima-OCT.-2021-MEMORIAL-ISSUE-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-czR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48383,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48351\/revisions\/48383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}