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Diane di Prima: Revolutionary Letters

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The War That Matters Is the War Against the Imagination

Francesca went into the archives at spellman college and retrieved some reedy, brilliant scans of deprimous correspondence with her lifelong friend, audril so ye. She was not just writing poetry, but all sorts of things, including plays and an perhaps also her letters have their foundations in her private letters. The line from rant ithink mera red, the war that matters is the war against the imagination, is the line that really sticks with me when iam thinking about why her work is so feel so contemporary. It suggests that we can use what we have as a kind of talket for thinking new possibilities into existence.

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