![]() ![]() When she arrived in San Francisco, she had missed the Summer of Love by a year, but that news hadn’t seemed to reach the household she shared with 14 other adults, their children, and the rotating cast of hippies and radicals who were always passing through. In New York, Di Prima had edited the newsletter The Floating Bear with Baraka-work that would get her arrested by the FBI for obscenity (the case was later thrown out). In mid-1968, the prolific poet and playwright, then 34, had just relocated from New York City, where she was born and raised, to San Francisco. How she came to write it is indicative of the casual misogyny and spirited irreverence of '60s counterculture. One of Di Prima’s best known works is the novel Memoirs of a Beatnik. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]()
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