Diane di Prima: Revolutionary Letters
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Am, the Poem Has Limits
I was very moved by something hanif abdu rachib at a memorial for her, am. He said van de prima taught him that the poem has limits - yet it is potentially limitless. I think more than anything she was a poet. You know, eh, a revolutionary but before that, in a sense, a poet because of the sense she hasThat possibilities do emerge from imagination. We educate and cultivate through poetry. And we tease and provoke through through poetry.
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